Bug #51079 [Com]: fsockopen will not work on 'localhost'

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51079&edit=1 ID: 51079 Comment by: thijsputman at gmail dot com Reported by: tony at marston-home dot demon dot co dot uk Summary: fsockopen will not work on 'localhost' Status: Assigned Type: Bug Package: Sockets related Operating System: win32 only - Windows XP PHP Version: 5.2.12 Assigned To: pajoye New Comment: Fair enough :) The reproduce code provided fails to connect to "localhost" with fsockopen() in PHP 5.3.2. When using PHP 5.3.0 fsockopen() connects to "localhost" without problems. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-03-10 12:03:59] pajoye@php.net It does not depend on PHP only but libmysql or mysql server. Please keep posting about the socket issue only here as the myslq&IPv6 questions have been covered numerous times in other reports. The one report per issue rule is also a good way to do not get distracted, thanks for your understanding :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-03-10 11:38:07] thijsputman at gmail dot com Agreed, but that's not my point: Just like when using fsockopen() to connect to "localhost", I would expect mysql_connect("localhost") to also attempt to use IPv4, irrespective of whether "localhost" resolves to [::1] or 127.0.0.1. This is the same behaviour exhibited by Firefox on my system and apparently also the behaviour of several other PHP functions, as made clear in the initial post of this bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-03-10 10:53:40] pajoye@php.net Mysql is not related to this problem, IPv6 is not supported and you have to apply one of the solutions described here or one of the other numerous reports about mysql and IPv6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-03-10 09:43:16] thijsputman at gmail dot com I can confirm that the problem is not present in PHP 5.3.0, but _is_ present in PHP 5.3.2... It appears the mysql(i) extension is suffering from the same issue: I just spend a couple hours going through various versions of phpMyAdmin (which after upgrading from 5.3.0 simply timed out with a blank page) until discovering this issue. Changing "localhost" into "127.0.0.1" did trick. Tested using 5.3.2 (VC9 NTS) on Windows Server 2008 (x64). On a side note, both Firefox and MS telnet don't have any issues connecting to localhost over IPv4. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-02-19 14:42:07] tony at marston-home dot demon dot co dot uk -Status: Feedback +Status: Open I have tried 5.2.13RC2, but it produces the same error. I have not tried 5.3.2RC2 as I do not have an error with 5.3.0 (which may be because my copy of 5.3.0 does not have IPv6 support enabled). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51079 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51079&edit=1