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Usage in Deno

import * as mod from "node:net";

Stability: 2 - Stable

The node:net module provides an asynchronous network API for creating stream-based TCP or IPC servers (createServer) and clients (createConnection).

It can be accessed using:

import net from 'node:net';

Classes

Functions

f
f
createConnection

A factory function, which creates a new Socket, immediately initiates connection with socket.connect(), then returns the net.Socket that starts the connection.

f
createServer

Creates a new TCP or IPC server.

f
getDefaultAutoSelectFamily

Gets the current default value of the autoSelectFamily option of socket.connect(options). The initial default value is true, unless the command line option--no-network-family-autoselection is provided.

f
getDefaultAutoSelectFamilyAttemptTimeout

Gets the current default value of the autoSelectFamilyAttemptTimeout option of socket.connect(options). The initial default value is 250 or the value specified via the command line option --network-family-autoselection-attempt-timeout.

f
isIP

Returns 6 if input is an IPv6 address. Returns 4 if input is an IPv4 address in dot-decimal notation with no leading zeroes. Otherwise, returns0.

f
isIPv4

Returns true if input is an IPv4 address in dot-decimal notation with no leading zeroes. Otherwise, returns false.

f
isIPv6

Returns true if input is an IPv6 address. Otherwise, returns false.

f
setDefaultAutoSelectFamily

Sets the default value of the autoSelectFamily option of socket.connect(options).

f
setDefaultAutoSelectFamilyAttemptTimeout

Sets the default value of the autoSelectFamilyAttemptTimeout option of socket.connect(options).

Interfaces

Type Aliases

T
IPVersion
No documentation available
T
LookupFunction
No documentation available
T
NetConnectOpts
No documentation available
T
SocketConnectOpts
No documentation available
T
SocketReadyState
No documentation available
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