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fsockopen

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

fsockopen — Open Internet or Unix domain socket connection

Description

resource fsockopen ( string $hostname [, int $port [, int &$errno [, string &$errstr [, float $timeout ]]]] )

Initiates a socket connection to the resource specified by hostname .

PHP supports targets in the Internet and Unix domains as described in List of Supported Socket Transports. A list of supported transports can also be retrieved using stream_get_transports().

The socket will by default be opened in blocking mode. You can switch it to non-blocking mode by using stream_set_blocking().

Parameters

hostname

If you have compiled in OpenSSL support, you may prefix the hostname with either ssl:// or tls:// to use an SSL or TLS client connection over TCP/IP to connect to the remote host.

port

The port number.

errno

If provided, holds the system level error number that occurred in the system-level connect() call.

If the value returned in errno is 0 and the function returned FALSE, it is an indication that the error occurred before the connect() call. This is most likely due to a problem initializing the socket.

errstr

The error message as a string.

timeout

The connection timeout, in seconds.

Note: If you need to set a timeout for reading/writing data over the socket, use stream_set_timeout(), as the timeout parameter to fsockopen() only applies while connecting the socket.

Return Values

fsockopen() returns a file pointer which may be used together with the other file functions (such as fgets(), fgetss(), fwrite(), fclose(), and feof()). If the call fails, it will return FALSE

ChangeLog

Version Description
4.3.0 Added support for the timeout parameter on win32.
4.3.0 SSL and TLS over TCP/IP support was added.
4.0.0 UDP support was added.
3.0.9 The timeout parameter was added.

Examples

Example #1 fsockopen() Example

<?php
$fp 
fsockopen("www.example.com"80$errno$errstr30);
if (!
$fp) {
    echo 
"$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
} else {
    
$out "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
    
$out .= "Host: www.example.com\r\n";
    
$out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";

    
fwrite($fp$out);
    while (!
feof($fp)) {
        echo 
fgets($fp128);
    }
    
fclose($fp);
}
?>

Example #2 Using UDP connection

The example below shows how to retrieve the day and time from the UDP service "daytime" (port 13) in your own machine.

<?php
$fp 
fsockopen("udp://127.0.0.1"13$errno$errstr);
if (!
$fp) {
    echo 
"ERROR: $errno - $errstr<br />\n";
} else {
    
fwrite($fp"\n");
    echo 
fread($fp26);
    
fclose($fp);
}
?>

Notes

Note: Depending on the environment, the Unix domain or the optional connect timeout may not be available.

Warning

UDP sockets will sometimes appear to have opened without an error, even if the remote host is unreachable. The error will only become apparent when you read or write data to/from the socket. The reason for this is because UDP is a "connectionless" protocol, which means that the operating system does not try to establish a link for the socket until it actually needs to send or receive data.

Note: When specifying a numerical IPv6 address (e.g. fe80::1), you must enclose the IP in square brackets—for example, tcp://[fe80::1]:80.



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fsockopen
bjdodson at gmail dot com
09-Jun-2008 03:35
If you are trying to use a raw socket with SSL support that supports client verification, use stream_context_create() in conjunction with stream_socket_client(). This will allow you to set advanced SSL options for a nonblocking socket connection.
dan at novapulsar dot com
13-Mar-2008 01:56
Re:

i found that it was '; ' (that's semicolon followed by a space) that permitted multiple cookies, not \r\n

i determined this by using charles http proxy, and inspecting the request headers for requests i was generating.

so the final cookie would header would look like

GET /path/to/script.php
Host: www.domain.com
Cookie: cookie_1=hello; cookie_2=world; cookie_3=bye;\r\n

------------------------------------------------------
corey at detoxservers dot com
02-Sep-2007 12:47
For those of you trying to POST cookies, use the header:
"Cookie: cookiename=cookievalue\r\n";
I haven't tried this for multiple cookies, I would assume you just add another Cookies: line to your header var.
dot dot dot dot dot alexander at gmail dot com
08-Mar-2008 10:15
An edit to my below function for extra headers support and a bit of debugging
( array("key" => "value")  type)
 <?php

if(!function_exists("download")){
    function
download($uri, $port = 80, $extra_headers = NULL){
if(!
function_exists("stripos")){
    function
stripos($str, $needle, $offset=0){
        return
strpos(strtolower($str),strtolower($needle),$offset);
    }
/* endfunction stripos */
}/* endfunction exists stripos*/
       
if(!is_int($port))$port = 80;
        if(!
is_array($extra_headers))$extra_headers = array();
       
$uri = strtr( strval($uri), array("http://" => "", "https://" => "ssl://", "ssl://" => "ssl://", "\\" => "/", "//" => "/") );
       
        if(  (
$protocol = stripos($uri, "://") ) !== FALSE  ){
            if(  (
$domain_pos = stripos($uri, "/", ($protocol + 3)) ) !== FALSE  ){
               
$domain = substr($uri, 0, $domain_pos);
               
$file = substr($uri, $domain_pos);
            }
            else{
               
$domain = $uri;
               
$file = "/";
            }
        }
        else{
            if(  (
$domain_pos = stripos($uri, "/") ) !== FALSE  ){
               
$domain = substr($uri, 0, $domain_pos);
               
$file = substr($uri, $domain_pos);
            }
            else{
               
$domain = $uri;
               
$file = "/";
            }
        }
       
       
$fp = fsockopen($domain, $port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
        if(!
$fp){
            return
FALSE;
        }
        else{
           
$out = "GET " . $file . " HTTP/1.1\r\n";
           
$out .= "Host: " . $domain . "\r\n";
            foreach(
$extra_headers as $nm => $vl ){
   
$out .= strtr( strval($nm), array( "\r" => "", "\n" => "", ": " => "", ":" => "") ) . ": " . strtr( strval($vl), array( "\r" => "", "\n" => "", ": " => "", ":" => "") ) . "\r\n";
            }
           
$out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
           
           
$response = "";
           
fwrite($fp, $out);
            while (!
feof($fp)) {
               
$response .= fgets($fp, 128);
            }
           
fclose($fp);
           
            global
$http_response_header;
           
$http_response_header = array();
            if( 
stripos($response, "\r\n\r\n") !== FALSE  ){
               
$hc = explode("\r\n\r\n"$response);
               
$headers = explode("\r\n"$hc[0]);
               
                if(!
is_array($headers))$headers = array();
                foreach(
$headers as $key => $header){
                   
$a = "";
                   
$b = "";
                    if( 
stripos($header, ":") !== FALSE  ){
                        list(
$a, $b) = explode(":", $header);
                       
$http_response_header[trim($a)] = trim($b);
                    }
                }
                return
end($hc);
            }
            else if( 
stripos($response, "\r\n") !== FALSE  ){
               
$headers = explode("\r\n"$response);
               
                if(!
is_array($headers))$headers = array();
                foreach(
$headers as $key => $header){
                    if( 
$key < ( count($headers) - 1 )  ){
                       
$a = "";
                       
$b = "";
                        if( 
stripos($header, ":") !== FALSE  ){
                            list(
$a, $b) = explode(":", $header);
                           
$http_response_header[trim($a)] = trim($b);
                        }
                    }
                }
                return
end($headers);
            }
            else{
                return
$response;
            }
        }
    }
/*endfunction download*/
}/*endif no function download*/
?>
Anonymous
01-Mar-2008 06:36
Of course, copy() is the ultimate download function, but it saves the data in a file, and probably you can use fopen() to get it as a string, but this function double checks everything, and has support for $http_response_header and
unlike file_get_contents(), it works on php 4.0.0

(Oh, and by the way, if you use it in another function like i do, don't forget to declare $http_response_header as global, or you won't be able to see the variable, even though you called it in the function)

<?php

if(!function_exists("stripos")){
    function
stripos($str, $needle, $offset=0){
        return
strpos(strtolower($str),strtolower($needle),$offset);
    }
/* endfunction stripos */
}/* endfunction exists stripos*/

if(!function_exists("download")){
    function
download($uri, $port = 80){
        if(!
is_int($port))$port = 80;
       
$uri = strtr( strval($uri), array("http://" => "", "https://" => "ssl://", "\\" => "/", "//" => "/") );
       
        if(  (
$protocol = stripos($uri, "://") ) !== FALSE  ){
            if(  (
$domain_pos = stripos($uri, "/", ($protocol + 3)) ) !== FALSE  ){
               
$domain = substr($uri, 0, $domain_pos);
               
$file = substr($uri, $domain_pos);
            }
            else{
               
$domain = $uri;
               
$file = "/";
            }
        }
        else{
            if(  (
$domain_pos = stripos($uri, "/") ) !== FALSE  ){
               
$domain = substr($uri, 0, $domain_pos);
               
$file = substr($uri, $domain_pos);
            }
            else{
               
$domain = $uri;
               
$file = "/";
            }
        }
       
       
$fp = fsockopen($domain, $port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
        if(!
$fp){
            return
FALSE;
        }
        else{
           
$out = "GET " . $file . " HTTP/1.1\r\n";
           
$out .= "Host: " . $domain . "\r\n";
           
$out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
           
           
$response = "";
           
fwrite($fp, $out);
            while (!
feof($fp)) {
               
$response .= fgets($fp, 128);
            }
           
fclose($fp);
           
            global
$http_response_header;
           
$http_response_header = array();
            if( 
stripos($response, "\r\n\r\n") !== FALSE  ){
               
$hc = explode("\r\n\r\n"$response);
               
$headers = explode("\r\n"$hc[0]);
               
                if(!
is_array($headers))$headers = array();
                foreach(
$headers as $key => $header){
                   
$a = "";
                   
$b = "";
                    if( 
stripos($header, ":") !== FALSE  ){
                        list(
$a, $b) = explode(":", $header);
                       
$http_response_header[trim($a)] = trim($b);
                    }
                }
                return
end($hc);
            }
            else if( 
stripos($response, "\r\n") !== FALSE  ){
               
$headers = explode("\r\n"$response);
               
                if(!
is_array($headers))$headers = array();
                foreach(
$headers as $key => $header){
                    if( 
$key < ( count($headers) - 1 )  ){
                       
$a = "";
                       
$b = "";
                        if( 
stripos($header, ":") !== FALSE  ){
                            list(
$a, $b) = explode(":", $header);
                           
$http_response_header[trim($a)] = trim($b);
                        }
                    }
                }
                return
end($headers);
            }
            else{
                return
$response;
            }
        }
    }
/*endfunction download*/
}/*endif no function download*/
?>
huli0401 at gmail dot com
27-Dec-2007 12:12
// Check for new version
    $current_version = explode('.', '1.0.00');
    $minor_revision = (int) $current_version[2];

    $errno = 0;
    $errstr = $version_info = '';

    if ($fsock = fsockopen("www.exanmple.eu", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30))
    {
        @fputs($fsock, "GET /ver.txt HTTP/1.1\r\n");
        @fputs($fsock, "HOST: www.example.eu\r\n");
        @fputs($fsock, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");

        $get_info = false;
        while (!@feof($fsock))
        {
            if ($get_info)
            {
                $version_info .= @fread($fsock, 1024);
            }
            else
            {
                if (@fgets($fsock, 1024) == "\r\n")
                {
                    $get_info = true;
                }
            }
        }
        @fclose($fsock);

        $version_info = explode("\n", $version_info);
        $latest_head_revision = (int) $version_info[0];
        $latest_minor_revision = (int) $version_info[2];
        $latest_version = (int) $version_info[0] . '.' . (int) $version_info[1] . '.' . (int) $version_info[2];

        if ($latest_head_revision == 2 && $minor_revision == $latest_minor_revision)
        {
            $version_info = '<p style="color:green">OK</p>';
        }
        else
        {
            $version_info = '<p style="color:red">neaktualne';
            $version_info .= '<br />'Latest_version_info' . $latest_version) . ' ' . sprintf(Current_version_info'. '1.0.00') . '</p>';
        }
    }
    else
    {
        if ($errstr)
        {
            $version_info = '<p style="color:red">' . sprintf(Connect_socket_error) . '</p>';
        }
        else
        {
            $version_info = '<p>'Socket_functions_disabled'</p>';
        }
    }
   
    $version_info .= '<p>'Mailing_list_subscribe_reminder'</p>';

echo $version_info;
landerretche at free dot fr
05-Dec-2007 05:59
Make a ping test with PHP

The problem with fsockopen is you have to known the destination port.

A real ping function could be :

function php_ping($url) {
  $addr=parse_url($url);
  $host=$addr['host'];
  exec("ping -c 1 -w 1 $host", $list);
  if (strpos($list[4],"1 received")>0) {
    return true ;
  }
  return false;
}

But if your router refuse the ping ... the result will be always false > you may test both (fsockopen and ping)
dali at dali dot net dot nz
13-Nov-2007 08:13
After several days of trying to get telnet going from php 5.2, i've come up with http://www.dali.net.nz/Telnet.class.php.txt

based on the one found at http://cvs.adfinis.ch/cvs.php/phpStreamcast/telnet.class.php

example usage:
<?php
$telnet
= new Telnet('telnethost.example.com');

$telnet->login('username', 'password');
echo
$telnet->exec('ifconfig') . "\n";
echo
$telnet->exec('ls -lh') . "\n";
$telnet->disconnect();
?>
parming at gmail dot com
15-Oct-2007 05:26
A pretty crude, but somewhat useful force-ping of the nearest network may come in handy for other mediocre coders like me. It returns an array of all replying boxes according to your $port choice (where, for reference, 139 targets all network cards and 3306 only running mysql apps). Keep the $timeout under 1 and the function can run in-under a second. Obvious limitations apply.

$ip = implode(".", array_slice(explode(".", $_SERVER["SERVER_ADDR"]), 0, 3)) . ".";

for ($i =0; $i < 255; $i++)
    if (@fsockopen($ip . $i, $port, $err, $errstr, $timeout))
        $online[] = $ip . $i;

The function can be expanded with additional for-loops, but I can't see the direct purpose of pinging everything-there-is.

Daniel Parming
anarchy
04-Sep-2007 09:34
I don't know why it's not mentioned here (or am I missing something), but the DEFAULT stream timeout is set according to default_socket_timeout in your php.ini file.  Took forever for me to dig that up....
corey at detoxservers dot com
02-Sep-2007 03:47
For those of you trying to POST cookies, use the header:
"Cookie: cookiename=cookievalue\r\n";
I haven't tried this for multiple cookies, I would assume you just add another Cookies: line to your header var.
bradland at umich dot edu
23-Jul-2007 12:32
I was having trouble doing an https in fopen and with fsockopen where the address had ssl://.  I was getting error code 114 in the log.  After much research i found that there was some ssl conflict trouble with MySQL 5.0.20-5.0.33.  It had some functions that were interfering with openssl that showed up in the php install.

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=21930
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=19289
warezthebeef at gmail dot com
17-Jul-2007 07:37
I ran into a problem where I needed to make an fsockopen() style connection from one specific ip address on a server with multiple ip aliases. Unfortunately fsockopen() does not allow the specification of a source address making it unsuitable. I could not find any other solutions elsewhere so here is mine for those with php 5.1.0 or greater.

// connect to the internet using the '192.168.0.100' IP
$opts = array('socket' => array('bindto' => '192.168.0.100:0'));

$context = stream_context_create($opts);

$fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://www.example.com:80", $errno, $errstr, 30, STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT, $context);

Now $fp can be used like a resource handle returned by a vanilla fsockopen() call!
aska at unit-mse dot jp
03-Jul-2007 09:58
easy get UIDL.
A code is better than the feof.

<?php

$fp
= fsockopen($host, 110, $errno, $errstr, 5);
if (
$fp > 0) {
   
fread($fp,1024);
   
fputs($fp, "USER $user\r\n");
   
fread($fp,1024);
   
fputs($fp, "PASS $pass\r\n");
   
fread($fp,1024);
   
fputs($fp, "UIDL\r\n");
   
fgets($fp,1024);
    do {
       
$line = rtrim(fgets($fp, 1024));
        if (
$line == '.') break;
        list(,
$UIDL) = split(' ', $line, 2);
        echo
$UIDL;
    } while (
$line != '.');
   
   
fputs($fp, "QUIT\r\n");
}
fclose($fp);

?>
Alexander Wegener
26-May-2007 10:29
To check if a Url is Online (with http and https)
Using @fgets to hide Warning when using SSL
(Bug: "Warning: function.fgets SSL: fatal protocol error", http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=23220)

<?php

   
function isOnline($url) {
        if (!
$url_info = parse_url($url)) {
            return
false;   
        }
       
        switch (
$url_info['scheme']) {
            case
'https':
               
$scheme = 'ssl://';
               
$port = 443;
                break;
            case
'http':
            default:
               
$scheme = '';
               
$port = 80;   
        }
       
       
$data = "";
       
$fid = @fsockopen($scheme . $url_info['host'], $port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
        if (
$fid) {
           
fputs($fid, 'HEAD ' . (isset($url_info['path'])? $url_info['path']: '/') . (isset($url_info['query'])? '?' . $url_info['query']: '') . " HTTP/1.0\r\n" .
                       
"Connection: close\r\n" .
                       
'Host: ' . $url_info['host'] . "\r\n\r\n");   
            while (!
feof($fid)) {
               
$data .= @fgets($fid, 128);
            }
           
fclose($fid);
            return !empty(
$data);
        } else {
            return
false;
        }
    }

?>
martjean77 at hot dot sapm dot mail dot com
16-May-2007 10:44
Just a correction

The function decode_jbr at ya-right dot com work nice for me (thanks), but is missing a last case, for when the response is not chunked (because it's too short for exemple), here a corrected function :

function decode_body ( $info, $str, $eol = "\r\n" )
{
  $tmp = $str;
  $add = strlen ( $eol );
  $str = '';
  if ( isset ( $info['transfer-encoding'] ) && $info['transfer-encoding'] == 'chunked' )
  {
    do
    {
      $tmp = ltrim ( $tmp );
      $pos = strpos ( $tmp, $eol );
      $len = hexdec ( substr ( $tmp, 0, $pos ) );
      if ( isset ( $info['content-encoding'] ) )
      {
        $str .= gzinflate ( substr ( $tmp, ( $pos + $add + 10 ), $len ) );
      }
      else
      {
        $str .= substr ( $tmp, ( $pos + $add ), $len );
      }
     
      $tmp = substr ( $tmp, ( $len + $pos + $add ) );
      $check = trim ( $tmp );
    }
    while ( ! empty ( $check ) );
  }
  else if ( isset ( $info['content-encoding'] ) )
  {
    $str = gzinflate ( substr ( $tmp, 10 ) );
  }
  else {
    $str = $tmp;
  }
  return $str;
}
02-Mar-2007 10:01
HTTP/1.1 requires that all clients support chunked transfer encoding. If you don't want to implement that and just want something simple, make HTTP/1.0 requests instead:

<?php
...
fputs("GET $path HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fputs("Host: $host\r\n");
...
etc..
?>
jbr at ya-right dot com
01-Mar-2007 11:17
Handling chunked data needs careful handling, because the data can also be compressed inside the chunked data, and chunked data can have many parts, so you need to watch for that. Here a simple example that uses one function decode_header(); to build the header into a key => value array, so it makes it easy to test for the content and transfer types inside the decode_body(); function!

<?php

function decode_header ( $str )
{
   
$part = preg_split ( "/\r?\n/", $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY );

   
$out = array ();

    for (
$h = 0; $h < sizeof ( $part ); $h++ )
    {
        if (
$h != 0 )
        {
           
$pos = strpos ( $part[$h], ':' );

           
$k = strtolower ( str_replace ( ' ', '', substr ( $part[$h], 0, $pos ) ) );

           
$v = trim ( substr ( $part[$h], ( $pos + 1 ) ) );
        }
        else
        {
           
$k = 'status';

           
$v = explode ( ' ', $part[$h] );

           
$v = $v[1];
        }

        if (
$k == 'set-cookie' )
        {
               
$out['cookies'][] = $v;
        }
        else if (
$k == 'content-type' )
        {
            if ( (
$cs = strpos ( $v, ';' ) ) !== false )
            {
               
$out[$k] = substr ( $v, 0, $cs );
            }
            else
            {
               
$out[$k] = $v;
            }
        }
        else
        {
           
$out[$k] = $v;
        }
    }

    return
$out;
}

function
decode_body ( $info, $str, $eol = "\r\n" )
{
   
$tmp = $str;

   
$add = strlen ( $eol );

   
$str = '';

    if ( isset (
$info['transfer-encoding'] ) && $info['transfer-encoding'] == 'chunked' )
    {
        do
        {
           
$tmp = ltrim ( $tmp );

           
$pos = strpos ( $tmp, $eol );

           
$len = hexdec ( substr ( $tmp, 0, $pos ) );

            if ( isset (
$info['content-encoding'] ) )
            {
               
$str .= gzinflate ( substr ( $tmp, ( $pos + $add + 10 ), $len ) );
            }
            else
            {
               
$str .= substr ( $tmp, ( $pos + $add ), $len );
            }

           
$tmp = substr ( $tmp, ( $len + $pos + $add ) );

           
$check = trim ( $tmp );

        } while ( ! empty (
$check ) );
    }
    else if ( isset (
$info['content-encoding'] ) )
    {
       
$str = gzinflate ( substr ( $tmp, 10 ) );
    }

    return
$str;
}

if ( (
$io = fsockopen( "www.yahoo.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 5 ) ) !== false )
{
   
$send  = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
   
$send .= "Host: www.yahoo.com\r\n";
   
$send .= "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021204\r\n";
   
$send .= "Referer: http://www.yahoo.com/\r\n";
   
$send .= "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,";
   
$send .= "text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,";
   
$send .= "image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1\r\n";
   
$send .= "Accept-Language: en-us, en;q=0.50\r\n";
   
$send .= "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9\r\n";
   
$send .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";

   
fputs ( $io, $send );

   
$send = '';

    do
    {
       
$send .= fgets ( $io, 4096 );

    } while (
strpos ( $send, "\r\n\r\n" ) === false );

   
$info = decode_header ( $send );

   
$send = '';

    while ( !
feof ( $io ) )
    {
       
$send .= fread ( $io, 8192 );
    }

   
fclose ( $io );

   
$send = decode_body ( $info, $send );

    echo
'<h3>Header Array</h3>';
    echo
'<pre>';
   
print_r ( $info );
    echo
'</pre>';
    echo
'<h3>Document Body</h3>';
    echo
$send;

}

?>
ryan1_00 at hotmail dot com
29-Jan-2007 10:52
Sorry for multiple submission of this but Added @ to suppress errors and a few exmples:

Also note that this script checks specific ports so you need to have the correct port open on the server for this to work.

E.g if i have a windows domain controller and it is servering LDAP then the following would be used to check it is online:

chkServer("MyDC", "389");

for a webserver
chkServer("MyWebSvr", "80");

etc etc
--------------------------------------------------------

// check if a server is up by connecting to a port
function chkServer($host, $port)
{  
    $hostip = @gethostbyname($host); // resloves IP from Hostname returns hostname on failure
   
    if ($hostip == $host) // if the IP is not resloved
    {
        echo "Server is down or does not exist";
    }
    else
    {
        if (!$x = @fsockopen($hostip, $port, $errno, $errstr, 5)) // attempt to connect
        {
            echo "Server is down";
        }
        else
        {
            echo "Server is up";
            if ($x)
            {
                @fclose($x); //close connection (i dont know if this is needed or not).
            }
        } 
    }
}
v13+phpnet at it dot teithe dot gr
24-Jan-2007 06:01
The following function performs pop3 authentication. Returns NULL on error, or true/false to indicate username/password matching:

$address is the hostname of the server and $ssl is a boolean that indicates whether an SSL connection is requested.

<?php
function pop3authCheck($username, $password, $address, $ssl)
{
    if (
$ssl)
       
$uri="ssl://$address:995";
    else
       
$uri="tcp://$address:110";

   
$fp=fsockopen($uri);

    if (!
$fp)
        return(
NULL);

   
$st=fgets($fp, 512);
    if (
substr($st, 0, 3)!="+OK")
    {
       
fclose($fp);
        return(
NULL);
    }

   
$st="USER $username\n";
    if (
fwrite($fp, $st)!=strlen($st))
    {
       
fclose($fp);
        return(
NULL);
    }

   
$st=fgets($fp, 512);
    if (
substr($st, 0, 3)!="+OK")
    {
       
fclose($fp);
        return(
NULL);
    }

   
$st="PASS $password\n";
    if (
fwrite($fp, $st)!=strlen($st))
    {
       
fclose($fp);
        return(
NULL);
    }

   
$st=fgets($fp, 512);
   
fclose($fp);
    if (
substr($st, 0, 3)=="+OK")
        return(
true);
    else if (
substr($st, 0, 4)=="+ERR")
        return(
false);
    else
        return(
NULL);
}
?>
jk at ricochetsolutions dot com
19-Dec-2006 10:20
here is my contribution for parsing chunked data.

please note: this function simply handles the RESPONSE, not the HEADERS, it would be your job to check the headers for 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' field:

<?php
function parseChunked($response) {

 
$do = true;
 
$return = "";
 
$size = NULL;

  while(
$do) {

   
// suppress warnings w/ @ if offset not in string (past end)
   
$pos = @strpos($response, "\r\n", 0);

    if(!(
$pos === false) && $size === NULL) {

     
// we found CRLF, get len from hex
     
$size = hexdec(substr($response, 0, $pos));
               
     
// get the actual chunk-len, reset $response, $size
     
$return .= substr($response, $pos+2, $size);
     
$response = substr($response, ($pos+2) + $size);
     
$size = NULL;
    }
    else {
     
$do = false;
    }
// end if/else

 
} // end while

 
return $return;
}
// end function parseChunked()
?>

Any recomendations or improvements please post
04-Dec-2006 11:34
I've had issues with some of the handlers for chunked http 1.1 responses.  Here's a method that worked for me, if it works for you as well, then cheers :P

<?php

   
function httpSocketConnection($host, $method, $path, $data)
    {
       
$method = strtoupper($method);       
       
        if (
$method == "GET")
        {
           
$path.= '?'.$data;
        }   
       
       
$filePointer = fsockopen($host, 80, $errorNumber, $errorString);
       
        if (!
$filePointer)
        {
           
logEvent('debug', 'Failed opening http socket connection: '.$errorString.' ('.$errorNumber.')<br/>\n');
            return
false;
        }

       
$requestHeader = $method." ".$path."  HTTP/1.1\r\n";
       
$requestHeader.= "Host: ".$host."\r\n";
       
$requestHeader.= "User-Agent:      Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0\r\n";
       
$requestHeader.= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";

        if (
$method == "POST")
        {
           
$requestHeader.= "Content-Length: ".strlen($data)."\r\n";
        }
       
       
$requestHeader.= "Connection: close\r\n\r\n";
       
        if (
$method == "POST")
        {
           
$requestHeader.= $data;
        }           

       
fwrite($filePointer, $requestHeader);
       
       
$responseHeader = '';
       
$responseContent = '';

        do
        {
           
$responseHeader.= fread($filePointer, 1);
        }
        while (!
preg_match('/\\r\\n\\r\\n$/', $responseHeader));
       
       
        if (!
strstr($responseHeader, "Transfer-Encoding: chunked"))
        {
            while (!
feof($filePointer))
            {
               
$responseContent.= fgets($filePointer, 128);
            }
        }
        else
        {

            while (
$chunk_length = hexdec(fgets($filePointer)))
            {
               
$responseContentChunk = '';
           
               
logEventToTextFile('debug', $chunk_length);
               
$read_length = 0;
               
                while (
$read_length < $chunk_length)
                {
                   
$responseContentChunk .= fread($filePointer, $chunk_length - $read_length);
                   
$read_length = strlen($responseContentChunk);
                }

               
$responseContent.=