ServerSocket disconnect client

Question

How can I disconnect a client from ServerSocket?
Example code:
protected var socket:ServerSocket = new ServerSocket();
[Bindable] // for keeping track of the clients
protected var clientSockets:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();
protected var clientIP:Array = new Array(); 
protected function createServer():void
    socket.bind(1234,"0.0.0.0");
    socket.addEventListener(ServerSocketConnectEvent.CONNECT, clientConnectedHandler);
    // start listening for connections socket.listen();
    // adds the client to the list and adds the disconnect handler         
protected function clientConnectedHandler(event:ServerSocketConnectEvent):void
    clientSockets.addItem(event.socket);
    clientIP.push(event.socket.remoteAddress);
    event.socket.addEventListener(Event.CLOSE,clientDisconnectedHandler);
protected function clientDisconnectedHandler(event:Event):void
    clientIP.splice(clientSockets.getItemIndex(event.target),1);
    clientSockets.removeItemAt(clientSockets.getItemIndex(event.target));
    event.target.removeEventListener(Event.CLOSE,clientDisconnectedHandler);
public function closeServer():void
    if(socket.bound){
        socket.close();
From my code here, I am able to detect and know when the client is disconnected. But how can I disconnect a client connection from ServerSocket?
Thank you.

Answer 1

As the docs say for the close() method:
The close event is dispatched only when the server closes the connection; it is not dispatched when you call the close() method.
So the function you run to close a connection should do all the similar work the event handler is doing as well. Besides, the event handler should be running the close() method and you wouldn't want to run the close() method twice on the same socket.
You can always centralize that into a function, e.g.:
function RemoveClient(sock:Socket):void
     // code to remove socket from ArrayCollection and close()
The handler and you can either call this same function to centralize the code into one function.
Otherwise just handle those two contexts differently. If you manually close one, duplicate the code necessary to fully prune your array and properly close your Socket.