socket_close
This probably sounds like common sense, but it is something nobody i asked thought of... you can't bind the socket to localhost, you must bind it to either the IP your router assigns you, or your public IP address. If you bind to localhost, it will give an invalid resource error.
socket_connect
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.7, PHP 5)
socket_connect — Initiates a connection on a socket
Description
bool socket_connect
( resource $socket
, string $address
[, int $port
] )
Initiate a connection to address using the socket resource socket , which must be a valid socket resource created with socket_create().
Parameters
- socket
-
- address
-
The address parameter is either an IPv4 address in dotted-quad notation (e.g. 127.0.0.1) if socket is AF_INET, a valid IPv6 address (e.g. ::1) if IPv6 support is enabled and socket is AF_INET6 or the pathname of a Unix domain socket, if the socket family is AF_UNIX.
- port
-
The port parameter is only used and is mandatory when connecting to an AF_INET or an AF_INET6 socket, and designates the port on the remote host to which a connection should be made.
Return Values
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. The error code can be retrieved with socket_last_error(). This code may be passed to socket_strerror() to get a textual explanation of the error.
Note: If the socket is non-blocking then this function returns FALSE with an error Operation now in progress.
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User Contributed Notessocket_connect
mike at fserve dot us
23-Feb-2008 12:14
23-Feb-2008 12:14
ScriptBlue at nyc dot rr dot com
17-Sep-2005 07:13
17-Sep-2005 07:13
If you do want to have a socket_connect operation timeout you can use the following code.
<?php
$sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
socket_set_nonblock($sock);
socket_connect($sock,"127.0.0.1", 80);
socket_set_block($sock);
switch(socket_select($r = array($sock), $w = array($sock), $f = array($sock), 5))
{
case 2:
echo "[-] Connection Refused\n";
break;
case 1:
echo "[+] Connected\n";
break;
case 0:
echo "[-] Timeout\n";
break;
}
?>
This basically makes socket_connect return immediately then you can use socket_select to see how the socket reacted.
11-Jul-2005 05:26
well this solution (above) is not right because you cant ping port...
telefoontoestel at home
23-Nov-2003 10:05
23-Nov-2003 10:05
In reply to the function socket_raw_connect posted by "net_del at freemail dot ru". In the function you give a return value and afterwords you try to close the connection. That won't ever work. I think you want to alter your code ;-)
seymour@itsyourdomain
01-Oct-2003 10:43
01-Oct-2003 10:43
here's how you can implement timeouts with the socket functions.
this example works for blocking sockets but will work for both blocking and nonblocking with minor modifications. first call to connect in nonblocking mode returns 115 EINPROGRESS, additional calls return 114 EALREADY if the connection has not already failed or succeeded. once the connection succeeds, the socket resource will be returned.
<?
$host = "127.0.0.1";
$port = "80";
$timeout = 15; //timeout in seconds
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP)
or die("Unable to create socket\n");
socket_set_nonblock($socket)
or die("Unable to set nonblock on socket\n");
$time = time();
while (!@socket_connect($socket, $host, $port))
{
$err = socket_last_error($socket);
if ($err == 115 || $err == 114)
{
if ((time() - $time) >= $timeout)
{
socket_close($socket);
die("Connection timed out.\n");
}
sleep(1);
continue;
}
die(socket_strerror($err) . "\n");
}
socket_set_block($this->socket)
or die("Unable to set block on socket\n");
?>
net_del at freemail dot ru
26-Aug-2003 11:54
26-Aug-2003 11:54
function socket_raw_connect ($server, $port, $timeout,$request)
{
if (!is_numeric($port) or !is_numeric($timeout)) {return false;}
$socket = fsockopen($server, $port, $errno, $errstr, $timeout);
fputs($socket, $request);
$ret = '';
while (!feof($socket))
{
$ret .= fgets($socket, 4096);
}
return $ret;
fclose($socket);
}
this code for easy raw connect.
Comment by net_del[nkg] (www.nkg.ru)
I am from russia. PHP is good language!
w at ff dot st
28-Jun-2003 12:20
28-Jun-2003 12:20
man page for connect :
EINPROGRESS
The socket is non-blocking and the connection cannot be completed immediately. It is possible to select(2) or poll(2) for completion by selecting the socket for writing. After select indicates writability, use getsockopt(2) to read the SO_ERROR option at level SOL_SOCKET to determine whether connect completed successfully (SO_ERROR is zero) or unsuccessfully (SO_ERROR is one of the usual error codes listed here, explaining the reason for the failure).
use socket_getoption($socket,SOL_SOCKET,SO_ERROR) . If you get value 115, it is connecting. If you get value different than 115 and 0, that means that an error has occured (see what error with socket_strerror()).
However, I don't know how does that works under Windows, maybe it wont work at all. It is supposed to work under Linux (man pages said that).
greg at mtechsolutions dot ca
01-May-2003 12:12
01-May-2003 12:12
If you're using non-blocking, be sure not to turn it on until after you connect, otherwise you will get the mesasge:
PHP Warning: socket_connect() unable to connect [115]: Operation now in progress in file.php on line 123
and socket_connect() will return false (even though it will connect).
logan at voerthegame dot com
24-Jul-2002 09:24
24-Jul-2002 09:24
I had the same problem with the timeout, and i applied this solution.
It works only on linux PHP, i make a ping to the ip before connect the socket.....
$address = gethostbyname ($ip);
$command = "ping -c 1 " . $address;
$r = exec($command);
if ($r[0]=="r")
{
$socket = socket_create (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if ($socket < 0) {
echo "socket_create() failed: reason: " . socket_strerror ($socket) . "\n";
} else {
echo "OK.\n";
}