markt

Hmmm I guess no one knows then :S

Or how about unsetting $myQry? Or mysql_close() ....

Yeah (and this might be my lack of understanding) but if a user completely blocks cookies, then sessions are also blocked. I tested this on my sites by disabling cookies then using sessions etc - seemed to be that way. I believe depending on your settings the SID is appended onto the URL if cookies are blocked - but I dont allow that cos it screws with search engines.

Your screwed though if people block cookies arnt you?

My code is: [code] function connect_to_socket () {   $socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);   socket_set_nonblock($this -> SOCKET) or die("Unable to set nonblock on socket\n");   $time = time();    while (!@socket_connect($this -> SOCKET, $this -> IPADDRESS, $this->PORT)) {     $err = socket_last_error($this -> SOCKET);     if ($err == 115 || $err == 114){       if ((time() - $time) >= $this -> TIMEOUT){         socket_close($this -> SOCKET);         // connection timed out         return(false);       }       sleep(1);       continue;     }     // connection refused     return(false);   }    socket_close($socket);   return (true); } [/code] This actually works for timing out the socket (improved from yesterday) but I now have issues with reading from the socket when I am using this method (non_block etc). Unfortunaly I dont understand too much about blocking and unblocking sockets and the php manual in non too detailed :/ The code I am using to read/write from the socket (read called after writing data) is: [code] function read_from_socket() {     while ($out = socket_read($this -> SOCKET, 12048)) {       $response .= $out;          }   return ($response); } function write_to_socket($in="") {   if (!socket_write($this -> SOCKET, $in, strlen($in))) {     print ("Failed to send data");   } } [/code] The response is then acted upon, but the response returned when using nonblock is not the same as if I just do a plain connect (seems to be nothing returned). Cheers Mark

Errrm... no, that sets an unlimited execution time for a script - did you read my post ?

Hi everyone I have written a script that connects to an xml service via a socket connection and sends and recieves data encrypted with GPG. The xml service runs as a daemon on a windows server (arrrgh) powered by .net and invariably crashes - which makes my socket connections run in an infinate loop - which creates more and more apache connections and eventually grinds the server to a half if apache is not restarted. The connections dont seem to be affected by the php.ini max_execution timout setting, nor anything else that I can find. Does anyone know how I can timeout a socket connection? Cheers