winsock - how to reject connection?

hi Guys,

when i have a listening socket and a connection request comes in... is there a winsock function that i can use to reject it instead of accepting it and continue listening? (after checking the remote address)

do i have to accept it first and close the new socket?

i suppose, firstly you have to accept connection and then to close it, because you get information about the client only after accept

thanks baccardi

i've been experimenting with the winsock libray. and i'm still new to it so bear with me.

just an observation...
isn't a call to listen always followed by a call accept?
there must be a reason they are seperate functions right?

could someone enlighten me?

EDIT: wait, i think i get it. it's the backlog

you start listening on the socket once, and then you can accept as many incoming conections on this socket as you like