[ciapug] TCP devel

[Ryan O'Rourke]

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 14:01, David Champion wrote:
> Ryan O'Rourke wrote:
> >On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 13:45, David Champion wrote:
> >>Ryan O'Rourke wrote:
> >>>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.      
> >>>
> >>What system are you using that doesn't offer an update to PHP 4.3.x?
> >
> >RedHat AS 2.1
> >
> >>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.
> >
> >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.
> 
> Hmm... couldn't you just test the socket connection, without having to 
> use Oracle?

Ahh... you're right. I'll find a test machine to start an install - but
ultimately I'd like to find out that an upgrade to 4.3 isn't necessary
for previously stated reasons.

> What's the software you're connecting to via the socket? I'm guessing 
> that's a proprietary credit card auth system?

Not sure - We're looking into it now.

> Have you tried to google 
> for that software + "php fopen" or something to see if others have 
> addressed this?

Not yet, but thanks for the idea. Once we find out what they're using on
the other end, I'll check into it.