Re: non blocking fsockopen

On Fri, July 28, 2006 7:21 am, clive wrote: > I know in PHP 5 you can use stream_socket_client() and set the flag to > STREAM_CLIENT_ASYNC_CONNECT|STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT which opens the > socket > in a non blocking mode. > > in php 4 you can use fsockopen and then set the socket to non > blocking. > The problem with this is that the fsockopen blocks until it creates > the > socket or times out. > > I want to know if there is a replacement for fsockopen that attempts > to > open a socket, but returns immediately instead of blocking or is there > another way to open a socket in a non blocking mode in PHP 4 There is a php.ini setting for how long the socket blocks connecting, which you can reset with ini_set to 0. Or maybe there's a separate setting for "non-blocking"... Anyway, it's do-able with ini_set on some documented settings in php.ini is the answer. I added a Contributor's Note to this effect a couple months ago, but a Notes Nazi decided it was not worthy of keeping. :-( -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm