I need help with pfsockopen and IRC

Anon

I'm trying to make a persistent connection to an IRC server, but everytime the script ends I just see a "Connection reset by peer" on the server. This happens right at the moment the script is done executing, if I add a sleep before the script ends then it lasts until the sleep is over. Could someone explain to me also how I would go about coming back to the persistant connection once I open it?

Anon

Try using this:

set_time_limit(0);

this will however cause the script to NEVER stop executing until it ends. (Meaning if you execute it via a webserver, it'll keep that process running...). The best way to have something stay connected to something is to just run it as a seperate process using the php cgi executable like so:

php -q /path/to/script.php

Also, using pfsockopen will automatically reconnect to the current open persistent socket. You do not need to do anything special.

Anon

Hmm this doesn't seem to be helping, I don't think it's an issue of the script actually timing out that is causing the disconnect. The script executes fine, but the problem is when it's done executing it closes the connection. What I did try is adding a long sleep to the end of the script along with disabling the timeout and then with another script i repeated the pfsockopen, and it did not allow me to resume the connection, instead it opened a new one.

Anon

Well, the reason the IRC Server is closing the connection is due to the fact that you are not responding to PING command from the server with a PONG reply when the server is not running... you can't, the script must stay running to do so. So the server disconnects you.

Anon

What the problem is, is that it's not runing the script as a process, it's just executing it and once the script ends the connection ends. I did try php -q script.php but all it did was execute it regularly, and the same result happened, the script ended and so did the connection.

Anon

You need to make it so the script does not ever end (using a loop that would only end in a special case, like if the connection to the IRC server was lost), that is the only way to have the server never drop your connection.