[ciapug] TCP devel

[David Champion]

Ryan O'Rourke wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 13:45, David Champion wrote:
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>>Ryan O'Rourke wrote:
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>>>I should also add that our developer is pushing me to upgrade to PHP 4.3
>>>since it supports streams - http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.stream.php
>>>He thinks no support for streams is the root of the problem here. I
>>>don't want to upgrade to PHP 4.3 since that will mean using an
>>>unsupported version on a box where we're paying $1,500/yr for support.
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>>What system are you using that doesn't offer an update to PHP 4.3.x?
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>RedHat AS 2.1
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>>I would suggest putting PHP 4.3.x on a test box, and see if using 
>>streams fixes your problem. If it does... then it's probably worth updating.
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>Yeah, that's what they want me to do. But that would involve installing
>Oracle client libs and all the time and hassle that goes along with
>that. I guess I'm just not convinced an upgrade is necessary yet.
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Hmm... couldn't you just test the socket connection, without having to 
use Oracle?

What's the software you're connecting to via the socket? I'm guessing 
that's a proprietary credit card auth system? Have you tried to google 
for that software + "php fopen" or something to see if others have 
addressed this?

-dc