Create a blocking and timeout client

The client program I tried to create will send some message to another
program on a different server and block wait for reply message. If
connection is timeout, close the socket.

I did something like

$socket = socket_create (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

if (!socket_set_block($socket)) { // $socket is now blocking
echo socket_strerror(socket_last_error());
}

$time_soc = array("sec"=>10, "usec"=>0);
if (!socket_set_option($socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, $time_soc))
{
die("error message is:
".socket_strerror(socket_last_error($socket))) ;
}

Is this the right way to do it? PHP fails at socket_set_option. Thanks

Anyone has any idea?

michma@gmail.com (Mike) wrote in message news:<8e9b7c06.0409211906.84ad3c4@posting.google.c om>...
> The client program I tried to create will send some message to another
> program on a different server and block wait for reply message. If
> connection is timeout, close the socket.
>
> I did something like
>
> $socket = socket_create (AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
>
> if (!socket_set_block($socket)) { // $socket is now blocking
> echo socket_strerror(socket_last_error());
> }
>
> $time_soc = array("sec"=>10, "usec"=>0);
> if (!socket_set_option($socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, $time_soc))
> {
> die("error message is:
> ".socket_strerror(socket_last_error($socket))) ;
> }
>
> Is this the right way to do it? PHP fails at socket_set_option. Thanks