is it possible to send a tcp message with javascript?

[MrCSharp]

Javascript is not my specialty, so does any one know if you can send tcp messages with javascript.

 

[Sheco]

What are you trying to accomplish?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

No you cannot.

You might be able to script an ActiveX control or Java applet, but there is no native TCP API for JavaScript, AFAIK.

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[Tarwn]

Well...technically if you wanted to, you could probably fake it with an XMLHTTP object, though it might get kind of pissed with you. Say you want to it to talkj to port 23, just direct it to

http://blah.blah.com:23/.

Now it's not really a raw socket connection, but you did manage to hit the port and transfer some info (HTTP headers, etc)

One (more realistic) option would be to have a page on the server that does the connection. You could use javascript and XMLHTTP to make queries back to the server, have the server-side pages do the socket work and return some data, then have the javascript output the result in some manner onto the page. Kind of AJAX meets sockets.

-T