fread-ing from an fsocket....

Anon

communicating with a local server-app through socket communication.

is there any way to have fread($fp,1000)
complete without having to send 1000 bytes from the server app.

have tried cr/lf at the end of the string being sent to the php-script.

any help greatly appreciated !

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fread does not stop at cr or lf, it is designed to read X bytes, or as many as it can before EOF.

Try using fgets() instead.

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Anon

Yes, what i was looking for was a way to 'emulate' eof in a string being read from a socket....1
....and this morning i found that by closing the socket from the other end, the fread function completed before receiving the number of bytes specified in the fread function.

not sure of the extra overhad added by closing the socket between packets, but initially this seems marginal.

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I know that deep down a little voice is screaming at you that closing a socket is not the proper way to inform your script that there is no more data to be received...

Use fgets instead, or alter your server so that it first sends a string containing the length of the rest of the data.
Then you can receive that string using fgets, and then you can use fread() to read exactly as many bytes as the server is going to send. Then fread will stop when it received enough bytes, and the sender will stop at the same time because it sent all it had to send.

A forum, a FAQ, what else do you need?