Re: [PHP] The stupidest question of the month.

I wrote a similiar IO Socket script by what you are describing. I used perl and the IO::Socket module. It was pretty straight forward and their is plenty of docs out there on that module. Just a thought Good Luck! Daniel - Original Message - From: "René Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] The stupidest question of the month.

From: "René Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I need to write a little program that opens and maintains a TCP socket > connection to a server across the Internet. This little program would > wait for messages from the server it's connected to, then record those > messages and send a kinda of acknowl

Re: [PHP] The stupidest question of the month.

Since you don't need to put up a server, you can just use fsockopen. If I recall correctly, passing the timeout argument as 0 means no timeout... If you use the cli version of php, you can just enter `php -q myscript.php &` on the command line (doubt this works w/ m$...). The ampersand tells the