(PHP 3>= 3.0.7, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)
pfsockopen -- Open persistent Internet or Unix domain socket connectionint pfsockopen
(string hostname, int port [, int
errno [, string
errstr [, int
timeout]]])
This function behaves exactly as fsockopen() with the difference that the connection is not closed after the script finishes. It is the persistent version of fsockopen().