Re: Re: Socket help

Chris Lee wrote: > your server has to open a connection to a remote > host to see if there are > messages ? like email ? yes. It is a sort of ftp-like protocol. > if this is so then use > cron once every so often to > check if there are new messages. I'll receive/send a lot of messages and this solution could not be efficient. But it is a possible way to do that, thanks, I didn't thought at it. > if the remote > host makes a connection to > your server the use tcp_wrappers to call your php script. It's my server that make the connection. > the second script can NOT use the first apps > socket, sockets arent shared > like that. Could I set up a script that handle the connection and take the message data from another script (launched by a html form )? > yes, sending and recienveing should be ok, any > data backed up will just be > stored in buffers. ok thanks > -- > > Chris Lee > lee@mediawaveonline.com Thanks for your help. Stefano Baronio