Can I check for invalid TCustomWinSocket pointers?

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From: Lesley Anne
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:52

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I have a TServerSocket that gets queries from client connections and sends a 
response back to the socket that requested it.  The problem is that it often 
has to check external databases before it can formulate its response, so 
there can be a brief delay before it has something to send back.  If during 
that time the client has disconnected, it causes an access violation when I 
try to send back the response to a socket that no longer exists.

I'd like to be able to check whether my TCustomWinSocket* still points to a 
valid active socket before I try sending the response to it.  Is there a 
good way to do that?

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