Re: Non-blocking sockets

Eric wrote: > Stut wrote: >> Eric wrote: >>> When I create a socket/stream that connects to a news sever and try >>> to recv data from the socket when there is nothing there (Like if the >>> server sends one line and I call recv twice) the socket freezes. I >>> assume this is because using socket_create or fsockopen creates a >>> blocking TCP/Stream socket by default. When I call >>> socket_set_nonblock() and the socket_connect I get "A non-blocking >>> operation could not be completed immediately". Could someone show me >>> exactly how to create a non-blocking TCP/Stream socket? Thanks in >>> advance. >> >> I may be wrong but I think you need to set the socket non-blocking >> after the connect. You cannot do a non-blocking connect. >> >> -Stut > Then the socket recv doesnt work. Gives me "Unable read from socket". > > $socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP); > socket_connect($socket,"news.csh.rit.edu",119); > socket_set_nonblock($socket); > socket_recv($socket,$buf,1024,0); > echo $buf; I *think* you need to be looking here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.socket-select.php >