Re: How to get input from socket client

Thanks for your reply > First, I don't think feof() will do what you think it does. I > wouldn't expect it to show up until after the other end has actually > closed the connection. I found unread_bytes in stream_get_meta_data should be more reliable > TCP is a stream protocol, there > are no guarantees about delivering a complete message in one read, or > that two writes won't be read together. It only guarantees that all > octets will eventually be delivered in the same order they were sent, or > you will get an error. thanks 4 pointing out the difference between tcp and udp, I had learnt a lot ^^ >The other problem has to do with thinking an fread() will always give >you everything you sent in an fwrite() Interestingly, I use 'telnet 127.0.0.1 1037' for testing later(on windows) and everything works, the php server got the input from telnet client, so I assume there is something wrong in the php client, the fwrite statement...