Hey guys, I am trying to do some socket programming in PHP.
So I am running a socket "server":
$address = '127.0.0.1';
$port = '9999';
$masterSocket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
socket_set_option($masterSocket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, 1);
socket_bind($masterSocket, $address, $port);
socket_listen($masterSocket, 5);
$clientSocket = socket_accept($masterSocket);
So I open up SSH and run this script. It is running, no errors.
Then I have another PHP script which attempts to connect to this:
$fp = fsockopen("me.com", 9999, $errno, $errstr, 30);
fclose($fp);
but it's giving me:
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to me.com:9999 (Connection refused)
How do I begin to fix this?
You haven't finished the listening socket sequence, you need to call socket_accept to accept new connections. There is an example in the comments in the PHP documentation.
$clients = array();
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,SOL_TCP);
socket_bind($socket,'127.0.0.1',$port);
socket_listen($socket);
socket_set_nonblock($socket);
while(true)
{
if(($newc = socket_accept($socket)) !== false)
{
echo "Client $newc has connected\n";
$clients[] = $newc;
}
}
http://php.net/manual/en/function.socket-accept.php
1) Check if the port is firewalled off. You could use telnet to check this.
2) See if it works when the client and server are on the same machine (I'm guessing from your mention of SSH that the server is remote).
3) If it works locally and you can hit the remote port using other tools then it's going to be tricky. I'd suggest you wail and gnash your teeth for a bit; I'm out of ideas.
EDIT: Heh. Or you could just read Steve-o's answer. Teeth-gnashing is still an option.
I know you said that "me.com" is an example but, just to be sure, socket_bind is expecting an IP address.
From http://php.net/manual/en/function.socket-bind.php :
address
If the socket is of the
AF_INET family, the address is an IP
in dotted-quad notation (e.g.
127.0.0.1).
If the socket is of the AF_UNIX
family, the address is the path of a
Unix-domain socket (e.g.
/tmp/my.sock).
I know the question is very old, but if someone still has this problem, make sure you connect to the SAME address you are listening on,
For example, If you're listening on 127.0.0.1 and your Machine address is me.com, you won't be able to connect to me.com with it, for that you'll have to listen on me.com.
Listening on: localhost:8088
Can only connect via: localhost:8088 // not via me.com:8088
Listening on: me.com:8088
Can only connect via: me.com:8088 // not via localhost:8088
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I have written some code in PHP to create a socket and listen for incoming connections. I am trying to do this using a specific port I'm interested in.
Everything is going well, except it opens the listening TCP socket on some random port, instead of the one chosen by me.
I'm running this code on Google Compute Engine (GCE).
Here is the exact php code that I tried:
set_time_limit(0);
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
socket_set_option($socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, 1);
$address = '35.190.179.17';
//bind socket to specified host
socket_bind($socket, $address,54468);
//listen to port
socket_listen($socket);
I got the issue resolved by using the internal IP instead of external IP address and opening the port for external connections.
Compute engine was not allowing socket bind using external IP address.
I wrote the follwing code in PHP
<?php
$mysocket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM , 0);
socket_bind($mysocket, '127.0.0.1',1024);
socket_listen($mysocket) or die("unable to listen!");
socket_connect($mysocket , '127.0.0.1' , 1024);?>
and an error showed up says"
Warning: socket_connect(): unable to connect [102]: Operation not supported on socket in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/SOCKTEST.php on line 5"
Where is the problem?
I don't know the goal of your code. But here is a great tutorial for socket programming in PHP.
https://www.christophh.net/2012/07/24/php-socket-programming/
I have tested your code. The error comes if your bind your socket to and address
$sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
socket_bind($sock, '127.0.0.1');
socket_connect($sock, '127.0.0.1', 1337);
socket_close($sock);
http://php.net/manual/de/function.socket-bind.php
Example from the PHP documentation. Perhaps its better if you use different instances to test your problem that you can connect through your network to another instance or computer. For this you can use vagrant for example.
Servers listen and accept, clients connect. The same socket endpoint cannot be both a server (listen) and a client (connect)
I'm implementing websockets for a chat system. The server.php is being invoked via ssh with php /www/server.php, and the first time it executes fine; but if the process is stopped (ctrl+z), this error is displayed after trying to invoke php /www/server.php again:
Warning: socket_bind(): unable to bind address [48]: Address already in use in /www/server.php
These are the contents of the /www/server.php file:
<?
$host = '10.10.0.103';
$port = '1337';
//Create TCP/IP sream socket
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
//reuseable port
socket_set_option($socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, 1);
//bind socket to specified host
socket_bind($socket, 0, $port);
//listen to port
socket_listen($socket);
// ... etc
So, I have two questions:
Can I reuse the same address / port after stopping the php /www/server.php job with a FLAG? Isn't SO_REUSEADDR supposed to reuse the same address/port?
What are the best practices for this issue? Restarting the websockets server could be an everyday task, e.g.: after updating the contents of /www/server.php
Thanks for any tips!
I am trying to connect via TCP Socket to a third party product. I am able to do so (and send a message successfully) with the following code:
if (isset($port) and ($socket=socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP)) and (socket_connect($socket, $address , $port)))
{
$text="Connection successful on IP $address, port $port";
$data = "<msg id=1>text</msg>" . $newline;
socket_send($socket, $data, strlen($data), MSG_DONTROUTE);
$text .= socket_strerror(socket_last_error());
socket_close($socket);
}
The down side is that I also need to listen on this socket. As I understand it, I first need to bind, rather than using connect. When I run the code below, I get this error when calling socket_bind
Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted.
code (snippet from a TCP Class, I have verified that the IP address, port, etc are the same in both snippets):
$this->Socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
$result = socket_bind($this->Socket, $this->Host, $this->Port);
$result = socket_listen($this->Socket, 3) or die("Could not set up socket listener\n");
$spawn = socket_accept($this->Socket) or die("Could not accept incoming connection\n");
How is it that I can connect using socket_connect but not socket_bind? Is it correct that I need to use socket_bind if I want to listen on this socket?
I am running PHP on a Windows XP Apache installation (Zend). I should also mention that the only other application running when I try to execute this code is the third party program to which I am trying to connect.
Thank you for any insight.
First of all, thanks for taking the time to read this. I have a strange problem with PHP sockets. I working on a php socket daemon which works via localhost, but when I try to connect from outside the LAN or another PC, it doesn't work. I've simplified my daemon to a very basic socket connection to replicate the issue for you to see.
Basically, here's the senario. I start the socket daemon on my server on port 6667. I can connect to the daemon via telnet and from the browser on the local machine running the daemon, but I cannot from any other machine - the daemon doesn't even see a connection attempt being made.
To further complicate the issue (which is why I think it's a port forwarding issue), my ISP blocks port 80, so I've setup dyndns and my router to use port 8000. I've also setup my router to forward port 6667 to my server.
To access my daemon from a browser, I enter the following (seudo) url:
http://mydomain.com:8000/client.php
This works from the local machine and will connect, but from any other machine, the daemon doesn't even see a connection attempt being made. However, if I specify the port like this:
http://mydomain.com:6667
my daemon does see a connection being made, but of course then the browser doesn't have a client page loaded that the user can use to interact with the daemon.
My client uses a flash file to create the socket connection (jsocket), but I know it isn't the cross-domain policy file because the policy is correct, and when connecting via localhost, it serves the policy file correctly.
Here's the simplified daemon code:
<?
// set some variables
$host = '0.0.0.0';
$port = 6667;
// don't timeout!
set_time_limit(0);
// create socket
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0) or die("Could not create socket\n");
// bind socket to port
$result = socket_bind($socket, $host, $port) or die("Could not bind to socket\n");
// start listening for connections
$result = socket_listen($socket, 3) or die("Could not set up socket listener\n");
// accept incoming connections
// spawn another socket to handle communication
$spawn = socket_accept($socket) or die("Could not accept incoming connection\n");
// read client input
$input = socket_read($spawn, 1024) or die("Could not read input\n");
// clean up input string
$input = trim($input);
// echo input back
$output = $input . "\n";
socket_write($spawn, $output, strlen ($output)) or die("Could not write output\n");
// close sockets
socket_close($spawn);
socket_close($socket);
?>
Summary:
I CAN connect from localhost via telnet and browser... I CAN connect from other machines via telnet, but I CAN NOT connection from the browser from other machines using the ip or domain name when port 8000 is specified. The daemon doesn't see any connection attempt. If I specify port 6667, then the daemon see's a connection attempt, but that is useless to the user. :(
Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
You're binding the socket (using socket_bind) onto localhost. Supplying localhost there will have PHP bind the socket to the 127.0.0.1.
socket_bind is used to bind a socket to a specific interface. Per example:
socket_bind($socket, '127.0.0.1', 80);
This allows you to connect to 127.0.0.1:80, but not 192.168.1.100:80, even if they are the same machine. The socket is bound to the 127.0.0.1 interface only:
$ telnet localhost 80
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
$ telnet 192.168.1.100 80
Trying 192.168.1.100...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
If you want to bind the socket on all available interfaces, use:
socket_bind($socket, '0.0.0.0', 80);
Then this works:
$ telnet localhost 80
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
$ telnet 192.168.1.100 80
Trying 192.168.1.100...
Connected to 192.168.1.100.
I use this "port_forwarding.php" on server to open port 3000 and forward remote mysql client connection to unix socket file / port 3306 of mysql server:
<?
set_time_limit(0);
function shutdown()
{global $ipsock, $rmsock;
if ($ipsock) fclose($ipsock);
if ($rmsock) fclose($rmsock);
}
register_shutdown_function('shutdown');
$target_socket='unix:///tmp/mysql.sock';//or 'tcp://192.168.0.2:3306'
$ipsock=stream_socket_server('tcp://192.168.0.2:3000', $errno2, $errstr2);
stream_set_blocking($ipsock, 0);
while (true)
{usleep(5000);//0.005s, to reduce cpu consumption
$c_ipsock=stream_socket_accept($ipsock); //even add '-1', it won't wait
$rmsock=stream_socket_client($target_socket, $errno, $errstr);
#stream_set_blocking($rmsock, 1);
while (($c_ipsock && !feof($c_ipsock)) && ($rmsock && !feof($rmsock)))
{$swrite=$except=null;
$sread=array($c_ipsock, $rmsock);
stream_select($sread, $swrite, $except, 5);
//print_r($sread);echo " \n";
if ($sread[0]===$rmsock)
{if ($data=fread($rmsock, 65536))
{//echo 'rmsock:'.strlen($data).' '.$data." \n";
myfwrite($c_ipsock, $data);
}
}
else if ($sread[0]===$c_ipsock)
{if ($data=fread($c_ipsock, 65536))
{//echo 'ipsock:'.strlen($data).' '.$data." \n";
myfwrite($rmsock, $data);
}
}
//var_export(array(feof($c_ipsock), feof($rmsock)));echo " \n";
}
#fclose($c_ipsock);
#fclose($rmsock);
}
function myfwrite($fd,$buf) {
$i=0;
while ($buf != "") {
$i=fwrite ($fd,$buf,strlen($buf));
if ($i==false) {
if (!feof($fd)) continue;
break;
}
$buf=substr($buf,$i);
}
return $i;
}
?>