note 37279 added to function.fsockopen

I had trouble keeping a tcp socket open in a telnet-like fashion. Since the server I connected to never returned an end of file, socket_get_status (unread_bytes) always read "1", I could never issue other commands through fputs. The first solution was to simply close and re-open the socket (too slow, in this case). What I cam up with is, once I am certain the server is done with its output: socket_set_timeout( $connection, 0 ); fgets( $connection, 100 ); socket_set_timeout( $connection, SOCKET_TIMEOUT ); This forces a timeout and seems to "clean" the connection, and fputs statements are properly handled after this point. (SOCKET_TIMEOUT is obviously a constant defined somewhere else). ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+37279 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+37279&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+37279&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php