socket.io Removing specific listener

by 
//To unsubscribe all listeners of an event
socket.off('event-name');

//to unsubscribe a certain listener
socket.off('event-name', listener);

Note that socket.off, socket.removeListener, socket.removeAllListeners, socket.removeEventListener are synonyms.

This is tested on socket.io v1.4.3

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