[PHP] fsockopen nntp stalls
I am attempting to use fsockopen to connect to a news server. I am able to successfully connect and authenticate. In fact, I can issue many commands without a hitch. I do, however, have a problem with commands which require multiline results. For instance, issuing the list command and echoing the results to the browser invariably results in the browser stalling. There is no timeout error from php, but after an arbitrary number of lines the browser stalls and does not receive the rest of the stream. I first thought this was some type of timeout error, but the odd thing is that the amount of data successfully recieves varies depending on the nntp server. For example: server A may have 90,000 groups to list and stalls after transferring 70,000 or so. On the other hand, server B may have only 300 groups to list and stalls after 250. If anyone has had any experience with this problem, please let me know what you did to resolve it. Fred -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] fsockopen nntp stalls
Why not just use the imap extension which supports the NNTP protocol natively? On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Fred wrote: I am attempting to use fsockopen to connect to a news server. I am able to successfully connect and authenticate. In fact, I can issue many commands without a hitch. I do, however, have a problem with commands which require multiline results. For instance, issuing the list command and echoing the results to the browser invariably results in the browser stalling. There is no timeout error from php, but after an arbitrary number of lines the browser stalls and does not receive the rest of the stream. I first thought this was some type of timeout error, but the odd thing is that the amount of data successfully recieves varies depending on the nntp server. For example: server A may have 90,000 groups to list and stalls after transferring 70,000 or so. On the other hand, server B may have only 300 groups to list and stalls after 250. If anyone has had any experience with this problem, please let me know what you did to resolve it. Fred -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] fsockopen nntp stalls
Good suggestion, in fact I just recompiled to include the IMAP extensions for just that purpose. Unfortunately, I was unable to get a decent understanding of how to use the IMAP extensions with NNTP, and since I have implemented connection level NNTP sessions in a number of languages I thought it may be easier. If you are aware of a good example or tutorial for implementing NNTP with IMAP I would appreciate a link. P.S. Thanks for this wonderful tool. Fred Rasmus Lerdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Why not just use the imap extension which supports the NNTP protocol natively? On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Fred wrote: I am attempting to use fsockopen to connect to a news server. I am able to successfully connect and authenticate. In fact, I can issue many commands without a hitch. I do, however, have a problem with commands which require multiline results. For instance, issuing the list command and echoing the results to the browser invariably results in the browser stalling. There is no timeout error from php, but after an arbitrary number of lines the browser stalls and does not receive the rest of the stream. I first thought this was some type of timeout error, but the odd thing is that the amount of data successfully recieves varies depending on the nntp server. For example: server A may have 90,000 groups to list and stalls after transferring 70,000 or so. On the other hand, server B may have only 300 groups to list and stalls after 250. If anyone has had any experience with this problem, please let me know what you did to resolve it. Fred -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
