(PHP3 >= 3.0.7, PHP4 )
pfsockopen --
Open persistent Internet or Unix domain socket connection
Description
int pfsockopen (string hostname, int port [, int
errno [, string
errstr [, int
timeout]]])
This function behaves exactly as fsockopen()
with the difference that the connection is not closed after the
script finishes. It is the persistent version of
fsockopen().