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fsockopen

fsockopen -- Open Internet or Unix domain socket connection.

Description

string fsockopen(string hostname, int port);

Opens an Internet domain socket connection to hostname on port port and returns a file pointer, which may be used by fgets(), fgetss(), fputs(), and fclose().

If port is 0 and the operating system supports Unix domain sockets, hostname will be used as the filename of a Unix domain socket to connect to.


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