Passing sockets through pages

[Dan]

Hello

Has anybody tried to open a socket to connect to a server on page a.php
and then passing it throung a session variable and getting it back at
page b.php and use it there.

Ive tried that and it doesnt work, the sockets looses the connection.
Ive tried algo to serialize it one page and un serialize it int the
next one and still doesnt work.

Any ideas?

Dan

[Colin McKinnon]

Dan wrote:

Hello

Has anybody tried to open a socket to connect to a server on page a.php
and then passing it throung a session variable and getting it back at
page b.php and use it there.

Ive tried that and it doesnt work, the sockets looses the connection.
Ive tried algo to serialize it one page and un serialize it int the
next one and still doesnt work.

It won't work - PHP closes all file handles on exit. You could setup some
background process to handle the socket connection (but then you'll need
some method of connecting to the background process - but there may be
benefits in implementing a lightweight protocol to the backend).

C.