Connect Async - Hhvm

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Connect to a socket asynchronously, returning a non-disposable handle

Hack

namespace HH\Lib\TCP;

function connect_async(
  string $host,
  int $port,
  ConnectOptions $opts = dict [
],
): Awaitable<CloseableSocket>;

If using IPv6 with a fallback to IPv4 with a connection timeout, the timeout will apply separately to the IPv4 and IPv6 connection attempts.

Parameters

string $host
int $port
ConnectOptions $opts = dict [ ]

Returns

Awaitable<CloseableSocket>