DESCRIPTION

This module provides the Erlang Web server API module programmer with utility functions for generic sockets communication. The appropriate communication mechanism is transparently used, that is ip_comm or ssl.

EXPORTS

deliver(SocketType, Socket, Data) -> Result

Types:

SocketType = socket_type()

Socket = socket()

Data = io_list() | binary()

Result = socket_closed | void()

deliver/3 sends the Binary over the Socket using the specified SocketType. Socket and SocketType should be the socket and the socket_type form the mod record as defined in httpd.hrl

peername(SocketType,Socket) -> {Port,IPAddress}

Types:

SocketType = socket_type()

Socket = socket()

Port = integer()

IPAddress = string()

peername/3 returns the Port and IPAddress of the remote Socket.

resolve() -> HostName

Types:

HostName = string()

resolve/0 returns the official HostName of the current host.

RELATED TO httpd_socket…

httpd(3erl)