Fsockopen Examples

Fsockopen Examples

Note the warning sign, fsockopen is dangerous in the sense that you can crash your server, perform a DOS against your own server or other site, use up all your servers available sockets and fd descriptors, use up your bandwidth, etc.. Shouldn’t be a problem unless you are being malicious or careless.

Here are some BOSS fsockopen functions I hacked together yesterday for use in my AskApache Crazy Cache WordPress Plugin. I’ve used code and ideas from 100’s of authors, projects, and docs to try to make this the very best I can.

Intro

This is a working example employing as many of the best-practices, tips, and tricks for using fsockopen on remote streams that I could find.