Re: telneting sockets help..

ta lawrence .. did you get that to work on your server side?? if so maybe its a m$IIS problem (which i am forced to run off) .. because that code hangs here too cheers brendan Lawrence Sheed wrote:

Have you tried setting socket blocking? Here's what I do... var $connection=0; $host = "pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au"; $port=23; switch( $connection=fsockopen($host,$port) ) { case -3:

    return("-3 socket could not be created");    case -4:     return("-4 dns lookup on host '$host' failed");    case -5:     return("-5 connection refused or timed out");    case -6:     return("-6 fdopen() call failed");    case -7:     return("-7 setvbuf() call failed");    default: 	//let getline do its job bit by bit rather than timeout by timeout

;)

      set_socket_blocking ($connection,false);
  } 

Function GetLine() { global $debug,$connection; $line = fread($connection,128); while(empty($line)){ $line = fread($connection,128); usleep(250000); } //If debugging on, force output if ($debug) { print ($line) ."<br>"; System("echo ''"); flush; } return ($line); } print GetLine(); -----Original Message----- From: brendan [mailto:brendan.gogarty@utas.edu.au] Sent: December 19, 2001 1:04 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net; James Cox Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] telneting sockets help.. hi james, thanks for your reply .. i was able to connect ( i should have written that in the email) its getting the info to flush to the screen that i cant do .. it just hangs.. so if you add something like while (!feof($fp)) {

         echo fgets ($fp,128);
     }
     fclose ($fp);

to the end you get nothing.. ... herein lies my second sleepless day.. i have been tyring to use the sockets() functions which have been added.. but they are badly documented and extremely unfriendly.. how did you manage to interact with your telnet server? cheers brendan James Cox wrote:

Hi, I had recent problems like this, and I traced it to firewall issues;

however

i just checked the destination, and found it is possible to telnet to

that

port, so it's not a firewall issue on their side. Try using the following code -- and let it run, see what response you get. <?php $host = "pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au"; $fp = fsockopen($host, 23, &$errno, &$errstr, 5); if (!($fp)) { echo "SOCKET ERROR: $errno - $errstr<br>\n"; } ?> Hope that helps, James Cox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Cox :: Senior Support Engineer Wherewithal, Inc. e: james@wherewithal.com Wherewithal. Capture Creative Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

-----Original Message----- From: brendan [mailto:brendan.gogarty@utas.edu.au] Sent: 19 December 2001 04:12 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] telneting sockets help.. hi i have been trying to write a telnet client to a tn3270 IBM mainframe database ( pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au:23 ) using fsockopen ... i thought it wouldnt be that bad given i have done something similar with usenet .. however i cannot get it to work no matter what I do .. i just get a permanent hang ... has anyone ever attempted this or have any solutions? i know this is rather open ended but i cant offer any code which even kind of works.. it would be much appreciated.. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net