Name
pfsockopen
Synopsis
int pfsockopen(stringhost, intport[, interror[, stringmessage[, doubletimeout]]])
Opens a persistent TCP or UDP connection to a remote
host on a specific
port. By default, TCP is used; to connect
via UDP, host must begin with
udp://. If specified,
timeout indicates the length of time in
seconds to wait before timing out.
If the connection is successful, the function returns a virtual file
pointer that can be used with functions such as fgets( ) and fputs( ). If the connection fails,
it returns false. If
error and
message are supplied, they are set to the
error number and error string, respectively.
Unlike fsockopen( ), the socket opened by this
function does not close automatically after completing a read or
write operation on it; you must close it explicitly with a call to
fsclose( ).
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