--- a/src/network/core/core.h	Fri Jan 12 18:32:39 2007 +0000
+++ b/src/network/core/core.h	Fri Jan 12 20:19:49 2007 +0000
@@ -5,9 +5,61 @@
 
 #ifdef ENABLE_NETWORK
 
+#include "os_abstraction.h"
+
 bool NetworkCoreInitialize(void);
 void NetworkCoreShutdown(void);
 
+typedef enum {
+	NETWORK_RECV_STATUS_OKAY,             ///< Everything is okay
+	NETWORK_RECV_STATUS_DESYNC,           ///< A desync did occur
+	NETWORK_RECV_STATUS_SAVEGAME,         ///< Something went wrong (down)loading the savegame
+	NETWORK_RECV_STATUS_CONN_LOST,        ///< The conection is 'just' lost
+	NETWORK_RECV_STATUS_MALFORMED_PACKET, ///< We apparently send a malformed packet
+	NETWORK_RECV_STATUS_SERVER_ERROR,     ///< The server told us we made an error
+	NETWORK_RECV_STATUS_SERVER_FULL,      ///< The server is full
+	NETWORK_RECV_STATUS_SERVER_BANNED,    ///< The server has banned us
+	NETWORK_RECV_STATUS_CLOSE_QUERY,      ///< Done quering the server
+} NetworkRecvStatus;
+
+/**
+ * SocketHandler for all network sockets in OpenTTD.
+ */
+class NetworkSocketHandler {
+public:
+	/* TODO: make socket & has_quit protected once the TCP stuff
+	 *is in a real class too */
+	bool has_quit; ///< Whether the current client has quit/send a bad packet
+	SOCKET sock;   ///< The socket currently connected to
+public:
+	NetworkSocketHandler() { this->sock = INVALID_SOCKET; this->has_quit = false; }
+	virtual ~NetworkSocketHandler() { this->Close(); }
+
+	/** Really close the socket */
+	virtual void Close() {}
+
+	/**
+	 * Close the current connection; for TCP this will be mostly equivalent
+	 * to Close(), but for UDP it just means the packet has to be dropped.
+	 * @return new status of the connection.
+	 */
+	virtual NetworkRecvStatus CloseConnection() { this->has_quit = true; return NETWORK_RECV_STATUS_OKAY; }
+
+	/**
+	 * Whether this socket is currently bound to a socket.
+	 * @return true when the socket is bound, false otherwise
+	 */
+	bool IsConnected() { return this->sock != INVALID_SOCKET; }
+
+	/**
+	 * Whether the current client connected to the socket has quit.
+	 * In the case of UDP, for example, once a client quits (send bad
+	 * data), the socket in not closed; only the packet is dropped.
+	 * @return true when the current client has quit, false otherwise
+	 */
+	bool HasClientQuit() { return this->has_quit; }
+};
+
 #endif /* ENABLE_NETWORK */
 
 #endif /* NETWORK_CORE_H */