note 55787 added to function.fsockopen

After a little experimenting, I worked out how to reliably handle chunked HTTP/1.1 data. The following code assumes a connection has already been opened as $fp, and the response header has been read into the array $header. A loop is used to read data until the entire chunk length has been read, due to fsockopen()'s tendency to stop reading when a new packet is received. Please note that I have not put this code through thorough testing; this is merely to demonstrate the methodology. if (isset($header['Transfer-Encoding'])) { // Read the length of the current chunk while ($chunk_length = hexdec(fgets($fp))) { // Initialize counter and buffer $read_length = 0; $data = NULL; // Read $chunk_length bytes of data while ($read_length < $chunk_length) { $data .= fread($fp, $chunk_length - $read_length); $read_length = strlen($data); } // Output the data read echo $data; } } ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+55787 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55787&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55787&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55787&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55787&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55787&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+55787&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+55787&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php