PHP. Руководство по PHP. 2005
pfsockopen
pfsockopen
(PHP 3>= 3.0.7, PHP 4, PHP 5)pfsockopen -- Open persistent Internet or Unix domain socket connection
Description
resource pfsockopen (string hostname [, int port [, int &errno [, string &errstr [, float timeout]]]])This function behaves exactly as fsockopen() with the difference that the connection is not closed after the script finishes. It is the persistent version of fsockopen().
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socket_get_status