I'm initiating a socket connection using Socket.IO to a Node.js server and it's as simple as follows:

var socket = io.connect(url, options);

At some point, I need to disconnect this socket when it's no longer need and reconnect it. I'm having some issues initiating a pletely new socket and I thought it would be much better to simply reconnect the same socket rather then rebuilding another socket and adding listeners to it.

Based on the socket.io documentation, I should be able to manually reconnect a socket by calling:

socket.connect();

But when I call that method, I'm getting an error in the console: Uncaught TypeError: Object # has no method 'connect'

Am I missing anything?

I'm initiating a socket connection using Socket.IO to a Node.js server and it's as simple as follows:

var socket = io.connect(url, options);

At some point, I need to disconnect this socket when it's no longer need and reconnect it. I'm having some issues initiating a pletely new socket and I thought it would be much better to simply reconnect the same socket rather then rebuilding another socket and adding listeners to it.

Based on the socket.io documentation, I should be able to manually reconnect a socket by calling:

socket.connect();

But when I call that method, I'm getting an error in the console: Uncaught TypeError: Object # has no method 'connect'

Am I missing anything?

• javascript
• socket.io

Share Improve this question Follow asked May 21, 2012 at 21:05 ElieElie 7,42388 gold badges3333 silver badges3535 bronze badges 2

• You need to provide more code. It seems a problem of scope. – Alexander Commented May 21, 2012 at 21:09
• 2 Alexander, it's not a scope issue. The connect socket function is simply not supported as stated in the documentation. – Elie Commented May 21, 2012 at 22:06

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You should call the socket in your socket object :

var socket = io.connect(url, options);
socket.socket.connect();

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