winsock - how to reject connection?

[symbiote]

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?

[baccardi]

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

[symbiote]

thanks baccardi

[symbiote]

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

[vart]

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