Re: php in free()

I'm not sure which way you create the connection, but I suppose that you use FSockOpen.. This is a buggy function, as far as I know.. Zend promised to take care of it in the 4.0.4 release of PHP, but since that nothing has changed, apparently. I had the same problem some week ago. In the end I had to use PERL script via PHP function exec(). And here's the bug: After calling a socket, PHP interpreter simply keeps all data in memory, doesn;t close connection, keeps trying to read, and finaly stucks.. which can lead to an extreme overload on your server (tried it on Apache and IIS).