note 16396 deleted from function.pfsockopen by jimw

Is there really no way to pass the resource handle to another script? If there's not, I don't really see the purpose of this function, since one could do the same thing with fsockopen(). If one would need to get user input to send to the server with the same socket that's reading through it, there is a workaround though: Save the user input in to a file or database and and then read it in the same loop you use to read from the socket. I haven't tried this techique yet, so there is a change that it will bring the system to it's knees by the constant file/database reading. I'll try this out and post experiencies here.