Closes the socket connection including its input and output stream and frees all associated ressources.
When calling close() any Thread currently blocked by a call to readLine() will be unblocked and receive an IOException.

Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object.

Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection.

Serves as a hash function for a particular type.

Gets the Type of the current instance.

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

Reads a line of text from the socket connection. The current thread is blocked until either the next line is received or an IOException encounters.

Returns a string that represents the current object.

Sends a given String to the socket connection.

Sends a given String to the socket connection.