socket is closed</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
  </div>
  <div class="jd-tagdata">
      <h5 class="jd-tagtitle">Returns</h5>
      <ul class="nolist"><li>Socket a new socket</li></ul>
  </div>
  <div class="jd-tagdata">
      <h5 class="jd-tagtitle">Throws</h5>
      <table class="jd-tagtable">  
        <tr>
            <th><a href="../../../../../../reference/java/io/IOException.html">IOException</a></td>
            <td>if an I/O error occurs while creating the socket</td>
        </tr>  
        <t