Support for ephemeral port on server socket/Query server socket for listening port

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Hi, In other programming languages you can have a server socket listen on pseudo-port 0, which is translated to a random port between a certain range (OS dependant, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeral_port). This is particularly useful for IPC where you want to temporarily set up a communication channel on a free port. This is currently not possible with the ABL server socket. Even if it was possible, there is currently no way to query a server socket to know on what port it is listening, so that would be feature request no.2

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