Create a socket and try to connect to the specified service, using the provided timeout.

Synopsis

Declared in <netbase.h>

std::unique_ptr<Sock>
ConnectDirectly(
    CService const& dest,
    bool manual_connection,
    std::chrono::milliseconds timeout);

Return Value

the connected socket if the operation succeeded, empty unique_ptr otherwise.

Parameters

Name

Description

dest [in]

The service to which to connect.

manual_connection [in]

Whether or not the connection was manually requested (e.g. through the addnode RPC).

timeout [in]

How long to wait for the connection before giving up.

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