Socket - Connection Status

Question

How can one check for the status of a connection once the connection to the socket succeeded.
something like (pseudocode):
if (connection to socket is open) {
Do whatever;
Thank you very much in advance. A.

Answer 1

How can one check for the status of a connection once
the connection to the socket succeeded.
something like (pseudocode):
if (connection to socket is open) {
Do whatever;
Thank you very much in advance. A.Normally you don't check the status of the connection. Instead you use a try-catch block like this:
try
   Socket mySocket = new Socket(...
   whatever else here
catch (IOException ioe)
   here put code to handle the connection not succeding
catch (UnknownHostException uhe)
   here put code to handle this type of exception
}If the connection is not succesfull (for whatever reason) control will transfer to one or the other catch blocks.