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I can't believe that I'm the only person who wants to do this, but I haven't been able to find anything helpful so far. Is there some way to tell if a web server is started in ESP8266WebServer. in an effort to make help explain what I mean consider this example. In a sketch (I'm using the Arduino IDE ) different situations end up either doing a sever.begin or a server.stop ad various times. Is there some way to check to see if the server is started or not? Also I already tried to ask this, but I can't find my post anywhere, so if it's out there and I'm just missing it, I apologize.

Thanks for your help