"system level connect()" is not further documented inside the php documentation so it is hard to find out more about error numbers.
someone suggest a more system-close way to find out more about error numbers here: http://www.askapache.com/php/fsockopen-socket.html (an interesting read about fsockopen anyway).
in my case i could debug to the fact that fsocketopen error number 16 was resulted in the inpossibility to resolve a hostname.
fsockopen
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
fsockopen — Otevře socketové spojení v internetové nebo unixové doméně.
Popis
resource fsockopen ( string $target [, int $port [, int &$errno [, string &$errstr [, float $timeout]]]] )Iniciuje proudové spojení v internetové (AF_INET, za použití TCP nebo UDP) nebo unixové (AF_UNIX) doméně. Pro internetovou doménu otevře TCP kanál na stroj hostname na port port. hostname v takovém případě může být plně určené doménové jméno nebo IP adresa. Pro spojení UDP musíte explicitně specifikovat protokol předřazením 'udp://' před hostname. V unixové doméně se hostname použije jako cesta k socketu port se pak musí nastavit na 0. Nepovinný parametr timeout se může použít k nastavení time-outu pro systémové volání connect.
Od PHP 4.3.0, pokud jste PHP zkompilovali s podporou OpenSSL, můžete před hostname předřadit 'ssl://' nebo 'tls://' pro použití SSL nebo TSL spojení na vzdálený stroj přes TCP/IP.
fsockopen() vrací deskriptor souboru, který lze použít s jinými souborovými funkcemi (např. fgets(), fgetss(), fputs(), fclose() a feof()).
Pokud volání selže, vrací funkce FALSE, a pokud jsou přítomny nepovinné parametry errno a errstr, budou nastaveny na aktuální chybovou úroveň v systémovém volání connect(). Je-li vrácená hodnota v errno rovna 0 a funkce vrátila FALSE, znamená to, že chyba nastala před voláním connect(). Nejčastěji je to kvůli problému při inicializaci socketu. Uvědomte si, že argumenty errno a errstr se vždy předávají odkazem.
V závislosti na prostředí nemusí být k dispozici unixová doména nebo volitelný parametr timeout.
Socket se implicitně otevře v blokujícím režimu. Do neblokujícího režimu ho můžete přepnout použitím socket_set_blocking().
Příklad 1328. fsockopen() Příklad
<?php
$fp = fsockopen ("www.example.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
echo "$errstr ($errno)<br>\n";
} else {
fputs ($fp, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: www.example.com\r\n\r\n");
while (!feof($fp)) {
echo fgets ($fp,128);
}
fclose ($fp);
}
?>
Další (níže uvedený) příklad ukazuje, jak získat datum a čas z UDP služby "daytime" (port 13) na vašem vlastním počítači.
Příklad 1329. Použití UDP spojení
<?php
$fp = fsockopen("udp://127.0.0.1", 13, $errno, $errstr);
if (!$fp) {
echo "CHYBA: $errno - $errstr<br>\n";
} else {
fwrite($fp,"\n");
echo fread($fp, 26);
fclose($fp);
}
?>
Viz také pfsockopen(), socket_set_blocking(), socket_set_timeout(), fgets(), fgetss(), fputs(), fclose(), feof() a rozšíření Curl.Poznámka: Parametr timeout by zaveden v PHP 3.0.9 a podpora UDP v PHP 4.
fsockopen
12-Oct-2008 08:26
09-Sep-2008 11:28
Notice using "tcp" insted of "http"
<?
fsockopen("tcp://example.net",80 , $errno, $errstr, 30);
?>
06-Sep-2008 12:00
My $0.02 on handling chunked transfer encoded output... Has rudimentary error handling.
<?php
//
// Example usage...
//
$server = '127.0.0.1';
$port = '80';
$uri = '/cgi-bin/random-cgi';
$content = 'Your post content...';
$post_results = httpPost($server,$port,$uri,$content);
if (!is_string($post_results)) {
die('uh oh, something went wrong');
} else {
die('Here are your results: ' . $post_results);
}
//
// Post provided content to an http server and optionally
// convert chunk encoded results. Returns false on errors,
// result of post on success. This example only handles http,
// not https.
//
function httpPost($ip=null,$port=80,$uri=null,$content=null) {
if (empty($ip)) { return false; }
if (!is_numeric($port)) { return false; }
if (empty($uri)) { return false; }
if (empty($content)) { return false; }
// generate headers in array.
$t = array();
$t[] = 'POST ' . $uri . ' HTTP/1.1';
$t[] = 'Content-Type: text/html';
$t[] = 'Host: ' . $ip . ':' . $port;
$t[] = 'Content-Length: ' . strlen($content);
$t[] = 'Connection: close';
$t = implode("\r\n",$t) . "\r\n\r\n" . $content;
//
// Open socket, provide error report vars and timeout of 10
// seconds.
//
$fp = @fsockopen($ip,$port,$errno,$errstr,10);
// If we don't have a stream resource, abort.
if (!(get_resource_type($fp) == 'stream')) { return false; }
//
// Send headers and content.
//
if (!fwrite($fp,$t)) {
fclose($fp);
return false;
}
//
// Read all of response into $rsp and close the socket.
//
$rsp = '';
while(!feof($fp)) { $rsp .= fgets($fp,8192); }
fclose($fp);
//
// Call parseHttpResponse() to return the results.
//
return parseHttpResponse($rsp);
}
//
// Accepts provided http content, checks for a valid http response,
// unchunks if needed, returns http content without headers on
// success, false on any errors.
//
function parseHttpResponse($content=null) {
if (empty($content)) { return false; }
// split into array, headers and content.
$hunks = explode("\r\n\r\n",trim($content));
if (!is_array($hunks) or count($hunks) < 2) {
return false;
}
$header = $hunks[count($hunks) - 2];
$body = $hunks[count($hunks) - 1];
$headers = explode("\n",$header);
unset($hunks);
unset($header);
if (!verifyHttpResponse($headers)) { return false; }
if (in_array('Transfer-Coding: chunked',$headers)) {
return trim(unchunkHttpResponse($body));
} else {
return trim($body);
}
}
//
// Validate http responses by checking header. Expects array of
// headers as argument. Returns boolean.
//
function validateHttpResponse($headers=null) {
if (!is_array($headers) or count($headers) < 1) { return false; }
switch(trim(strtolower($headers[0]))) {
case 'http/1.0 100 ok':
case 'http/1.0 200 ok':
case 'http/1.1 100 ok':
case 'http/1.1 200 ok':
return true;
break;
}
return false;
}
//
// Unchunk http content. Returns unchunked content on success,
// false on any errors... Borrows from code posted above by
// jbr at ya-right dot com.
//
function unchunkHttpResponse($str=null) {
if (!is_string($str) or strlen($str) < 1) { return false; }
$eol = "\r\n";
$add = strlen($eol);
$tmp = $str;
$str = '';
do {
$tmp = ltrim($tmp);
$pos = strpos($tmp, $eol);
if ($pos === false) { return false; }
$len = hexdec(substr($tmp,0,$pos));
if (!is_numeric($len) or $len < 0) { return false; }
$str .= substr($tmp, ($pos + $add), $len);
$tmp = substr($tmp, ($len + $pos + $add));
$check = trim($tmp);
} while(!empty($check));
unset($tmp);
return $str;
}
?>
18-Aug-2008 06:34
Sending multiple files with form(modification of sir_reality2001 at yahoo dot com's and Duukkis's scripts):
<?php
$boundary = "AaB03x";
$boundary2 = "BbC04y";
// Build the header
$header = "POST remoteurl HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Host: remotehost\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=$boundary\r\n";
// attach post vars
foreach($_POST AS $index => $value){
$data .="--$boundary\r\n";
$data .= "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"".$index."\"\r\n";
$data .= "\r\n".$value."\r\n";
$data .="--$boundary\r\n";
}
// and attach the file
for ($i=0; $i<count($_FILES['userfile']['name']);$i++)
{
$data .= "--$boundary\r\n";
if ($_FILES['userfile']['name'][$i] != '')
{
$content_file = join("", file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'][$i]));
$data.="Content-Disposition: file; name=\"userfile[$i]\"; filename=\"".$_FILES['userfile']['name'][$i]."\"\r\n";
$data .= "Content-Type: ".$_FILES['userfile']['type'][$i]."\r\n\r\n";
$data .= "".$content_file."\r\n";
$data .="--$boundary\r\n";
}
}
$data .="--$boundary--\r\n";
$header .= "Content-length: " . strlen($data) . "\r\n\r\n";
$fp = fsockopen($remote_server, 80);
?>
21-Jul-2008 08:32
When you try to POST/GET requests via HTTPS over SSL/TLS you should notice this:
<?php
// preconditions
$port = 80 | 443
$host = "www.example.com";
$method = "POST" | "GET";
$contenttype = "text/html" | "text/plain" | "text/xml" | ...;
$data = "<something>";
// script
if($port == 443)
$sslhost = "ssl://".$host;
else
$sslhost = $host;
$fp = fsockopen($sslhost, $port);
fputs($fp, "$method $path HTTP/1.1\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Host: $host\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-type: $contenttype\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-length: ".strlen($data)."\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Connection: close\r\n");
fputs($fp, "\r\n");
?>
The server usually does not understand the HTTP-header "Host: XXX" if you provide it with the trailing "ssl://" used by fsockopen(); If you do it anyway you probably get a HTTP 400 back as response. :-)
08-Mar-2008 10:15
An edit to my below function for extra headers support and a bit of debugging
( array("key" => "value") type)
<?php
if(!function_exists("download")){
function download($uri, $port = 80, $extra_headers = NULL){
if(!function_exists("stripos")){
function stripos($str, $needle, $offset=0){
return strpos(strtolower($str),strtolower($needle),$offset);
}/* endfunction stripos */
}/* endfunction exists stripos*/
if(!is_int($port))$port = 80;
if(!is_array($extra_headers))$extra_headers = array();
$uri = strtr( strval($uri), array("http://" => "", "https://" => "ssl://", "ssl://" => "ssl://", "\\" => "/", "//" => "/") );
if( ( $protocol = stripos($uri, "://") ) !== FALSE ){
if( ( $domain_pos = stripos($uri, "/", ($protocol + 3)) ) !== FALSE ){
$domain = substr($uri, 0, $domain_pos);
$file = substr($uri, $domain_pos);
}
else{
$domain = $uri;
$file = "/";
}
}
else{
if( ( $domain_pos = stripos($uri, "/") ) !== FALSE ){
$domain = substr($uri, 0, $domain_pos);
$file = substr($uri, $domain_pos);
}
else{
$domain = $uri;
$file = "/";
}
}
$fp = fsockopen($domain, $port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if(!$fp){
return FALSE;
}
else{
$out = "GET " . $file . " HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$out .= "Host: " . $domain . "\r\n";
foreach( $extra_headers as $nm => $vl ){
$out .= strtr( strval($nm), array( "\r" => "", "\n" => "", ": " => "", ":" => "") ) . ": " . strtr( strval($vl), array( "\r" => "", "\n" => "", ": " => "", ":" => "") ) . "\r\n";
}
$out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
$response = "";
fwrite($fp, $out);
while (!feof($fp)) {
$response .= fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose($fp);
global $http_response_header;
$http_response_header = array();
if( stripos($response, "\r\n\r\n") !== FALSE ){
$hc = explode("\r\n\r\n", $response);
$headers = explode("\r\n", $hc[0]);
if(!is_array($headers))$headers = array();
foreach($headers as $key => $header){
$a = "";
$b = "";
if( stripos($header, ":") !== FALSE ){
list($a, $b) = explode(":", $header);
$http_response_header[trim($a)] = trim($b);
}
}
return end($hc);
}
else if( stripos($response, "\r\n") !== FALSE ){
$headers = explode("\r\n", $response);
if(!is_array($headers))$headers = array();
foreach($headers as $key => $header){
if( $key < ( count($headers) - 1 ) ){
$a = "";
$b = "";
if( stripos($header, ":") !== FALSE ){
list($a, $b) = explode(":", $header);
$http_response_header[trim($a)] = trim($b);
}
}
}
return end($headers);
}
else{
return $response;
}
}
}/*endfunction download*/
}/*endif no function download*/
?>
27-Dec-2007 12:12
<?php
// Check for new version
$current_version = explode('.', '1.0.00');
$minor_revision = (int) $current_version[2];
$errno = 0;
$errstr = $version_info = '';
if ($fsock = fsockopen("www.exanmple.eu", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30))
{
@fputs($fsock, "GET /ver.txt HTTP/1.1\r\n");
@fputs($fsock, "HOST: www.example.eu\r\n");
@fputs($fsock, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");
$get_info = false;
while (!@feof($fsock))
{
if ($get_info)
{
$version_info .= @fread($fsock, 1024);
}
else
{
if (@fgets($fsock, 1024) == "\r\n")
{
$get_info = true;
}
}
}
@fclose($fsock);
$version_info = explode("\n", $version_info);
$latest_head_revision = (int) $version_info[0];
$latest_minor_revision = (int) $version_info[2];
$latest_version = (int) $version_info[0] . '.' . (int) $version_info[1] . '.' . (int) $version_info[2];
if ($latest_head_revision == 2 && $minor_revision == $latest_minor_revision)
{
$version_info = '<p style="color:green">OK</p>';
}
else
{
$version_info = '<p style="color:red">neaktualne';
$version_info .= '<br />'Latest_version_info' . $latest_version) . ' ' . sprintf(Current_version_info'. '1.0.00') . '</p>';
}
}
else
{
if ($errstr)
{
$version_info = '<p style="color:red">' . sprintf(Connect_socket_error) . '</p>';
}
else
{
$version_info = '<p>'Socket_functions_disabled'</p>';
}
}
$version_info .= '<p>'Mailing_list_subscribe_reminder'</p>';
echo $version_info;
?>
05-Dec-2007 05:59
Make a ping test with PHP
The problem with fsockopen is you have to known the destination port.
A real ping function could be :
<?php
function php_ping($url) {
$addr=parse_url($url);
$host=$addr['host'];
exec("ping -c 1 -w 1 $host", $list);
if (strpos($list[4],"1 received")>0) {
return true ;
}
return false;
}
?>
But if your router refuse the ping ... the result will be always false > you may test both (fsockopen and ping)
13-Nov-2007 08:13
After several days of trying to get telnet going from php 5.2, i've come up with http://www.dali.net.nz/Telnet.class.php.txt
based on the one found at http://cvs.adfinis.ch/cvs.php/phpStreamcast/telnet.class.php
example usage:
<?php
$telnet = new Telnet('telnethost.example.com');
$telnet->login('username', 'password');
echo $telnet->exec('ifconfig') . "\n";
echo $telnet->exec('ls -lh') . "\n";
$telnet->disconnect();
?>
04-Sep-2007 09:34
I don't know why it's not mentioned here (or am I missing something), but the DEFAULT stream timeout is set according to default_socket_timeout in your php.ini file. Took forever for me to dig that up....
23-Jul-2007 12:32
I was having trouble doing an https in fopen and with fsockopen where the address had ssl://. I was getting error code 114 in the log. After much research i found that there was some ssl conflict trouble with MySQL 5.0.20-5.0.33. It had some functions that were interfering with openssl that showed up in the php install.
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=21930
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=19289
17-Jul-2007 07:37
I ran into a problem where I needed to make an fsockopen() style connection from one specific ip address on a server with multiple ip aliases. Unfortunately fsockopen() does not allow the specification of a source address making it unsuitable. I could not find any other solutions elsewhere so here is mine for those with php 5.1.0 or greater.
<?php
// connect to the internet using the '192.168.0.100' IP
$opts = array('socket' => array('bindto' => '192.168.0.100:0'));
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://www.example.com:80", $errno, $errstr, 30, STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT, $context);
?>
Now $fp can be used like a resource handle returned by a vanilla fsockopen() call!
03-Jul-2007 09:58
easy get UIDL.
A code is better than the feof.
<?php
$fp = fsockopen($host, 110, $errno, $errstr, 5);
if ($fp > 0) {
fread($fp,1024);
fputs($fp, "USER $user\r\n");
fread($fp,1024);
fputs($fp, "PASS $pass\r\n");
fread($fp,1024);
fputs($fp, "UIDL\r\n");
fgets($fp,1024);
do {
$line = rtrim(fgets($fp, 1024));
if ($line == '.') break;
list(, $UIDL) = split(' ', $line, 2);
echo $UIDL;
} while ($line != '.');
fputs($fp, "QUIT\r\n");
}
fclose($fp);
?>
26-May-2007 10:29
To check if a Url is Online (with http and https)
Using @fgets to hide Warning when using SSL
(Bug: "Warning: function.fgets SSL: fatal protocol error", http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=23220)
<?php
function isOnline($url) {
if (!$url_info = parse_url($url)) {
return false;
}
switch ($url_info['scheme']) {
case 'https':
$scheme = 'ssl://';
$port = 443;
break;
case 'http':
default:
$scheme = '';
$port = 80;
}
$data = "";
$fid = @fsockopen($scheme . $url_info['host'], $port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if ($fid) {
fputs($fid, 'HEAD ' . (isset($url_info['path'])? $url_info['path']: '/') . (isset($url_info['query'])? '?' . $url_info['query']: '') . " HTTP/1.0\r\n" .
"Connection: close\r\n" .
'Host: ' . $url_info['host'] . "\r\n\r\n");
while (!feof($fid)) {
$data .= @fgets($fid, 128);
}
fclose($fid);
return !empty($data);
} else {
return false;
}
}
?>
HTTP/1.1 requires that all clients support chunked transfer encoding. If you don't want to implement that and just want something simple, make HTTP/1.0 requests instead:
<?php
...
fputs("GET $path HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fputs("Host: $host\r\n");
...etc..
?>
01-Mar-2007 11:17
[EDIT by danbrown AT php DOT net: This note contains a big-fixed version of the user function decode_body(). Fix by (martjean77 at hot dot sapm dot mail dot com) [sic].]
Handling chunked data needs careful handling, because the data can also be compressed inside the chunked data, and chunked data can have many parts, so you need to watch for that. Here a simple example that uses one function decode_header(); to build the header into a key => value array, so it makes it easy to test for the content and transfer types inside the decode_body(); function!
<?php
function decode_header ( $str )
{
$part = preg_split ( "/\r?\n/", $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY );
$out = array ();
for ( $h = 0; $h < sizeof ( $part ); $h++ )
{
if ( $h != 0 )
{
$pos = strpos ( $part[$h], ':' );
$k = strtolower ( str_replace ( ' ', '', substr ( $part[$h], 0, $pos ) ) );
$v = trim ( substr ( $part[$h], ( $pos + 1 ) ) );
}
else
{
$k = 'status';
$v = explode ( ' ', $part[$h] );
$v = $v[1];
}
if ( $k == 'set-cookie' )
{
$out['cookies'][] = $v;
}
else if ( $k == 'content-type' )
{
if ( ( $cs = strpos ( $v, ';' ) ) !== false )
{
$out[$k] = substr ( $v, 0, $cs );
}
else
{
$out[$k] = $v;
}
}
else
{
$out[$k] = $v;
}
}
return $out;
}
function decode_body ( $info, $str, $eol = "\r\n" )
{
$tmp = $str;
$add = strlen ( $eol );
$str = '';
if ( isset ( $info['transfer-encoding'] ) && $info['transfer-encoding'] == 'chunked' )
{
do
{
$tmp = ltrim ( $tmp );
$pos = strpos ( $tmp, $eol );
$len = hexdec ( substr ( $tmp, 0, $pos ) );
if ( isset ( $info['content-encoding'] ) )
{
$str .= gzinflate ( substr ( $tmp, ( $pos + $add + 10 ), $len ) );
}
else
{
$str .= substr ( $tmp, ( $pos + $add ), $len );
}
$tmp = substr ( $tmp, ( $len + $pos + $add ) );
$check = trim ( $tmp );
}
while ( ! empty ( $check ) );
}
else if ( isset ( $info['content-encoding'] ) )
{
$str = gzinflate ( substr ( $tmp, 10 ) );
}
else {
$str = $tmp;
}
return $str;
}
if ( ( $io = fsockopen( "www.yahoo.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 5 ) ) !== false )
{
$send = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$send .= "Host: www.yahoo.com\r\n";
$send .= "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021204\r\n";
$send .= "Referer: http://www.yahoo.com/\r\n";
$send .= "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,";
$send .= "text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,";
$send .= "image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1\r\n";
$send .= "Accept-Language: en-us, en;q=0.50\r\n";
$send .= "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9\r\n";
$send .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
fputs ( $io, $send );
$send = '';
do
{
$send .= fgets ( $io, 4096 );
} while ( strpos ( $send, "\r\n\r\n" ) === false );
$info = decode_header ( $send );
$send = '';
while ( ! feof ( $io ) )
{
$send .= fread ( $io, 8192 );
}
fclose ( $io );
$send = decode_body ( $info, $send );
echo '<h3>Header Array</h3>';
echo '<pre>';
print_r ( $info );
echo '</pre>';
echo '<h3>Document Body</h3>';
echo $send;
}
?>
29-Jan-2007 10:52
This script checks specific ports so you need to have the correct port open on the server for this to work.
E.g if i have a windows domain controller and it is servering LDAP then the following would be used to check it is online:
<?php
chkServer("MyDC", "389");
?>
for a webserver:
<?php
chkServer("MyWebSvr", "80");
?>
etc etc
--------------------------------------------------------
<?php
// check if a server is up by connecting to a port
function chkServer($host, $port)
{
$hostip = @gethostbyname($host); // resloves IP from Hostname returns hostname on failure
if ($hostip == $host) // if the IP is not resloved
{
echo "Server is down or does not exist";
}
else
{
if (!$x = @fsockopen($hostip, $port, $errno, $errstr, 5)) // attempt to connect
{
echo "Server is down";
}
else
{
echo "Server is up";
if ($x)
{
@fclose($x); //close connection
}
}
}
}
?>
24-Jan-2007 06:01
The following function performs pop3 authentication. Returns NULL on error, or true/false to indicate username/password matching:
$address is the hostname of the server and $ssl is a boolean that indicates whether an SSL connection is requested.
<?php
function pop3authCheck($username, $password, $address, $ssl)
{
if ($ssl)
$uri="ssl://$address:995";
else
$uri="tcp://$address:110";
$fp=fsockopen($uri);
if (!$fp)
return(NULL);
$st=fgets($fp, 512);
if (substr($st, 0, 3)!="+OK")
{
fclose($fp);
return(NULL);
}
$st="USER $username\n";
if (fwrite($fp, $st)!=strlen($st))
{
fclose($fp);
return(NULL);
}
$st=fgets($fp, 512);
if (substr($st, 0, 3)!="+OK")
{
fclose($fp);
return(NULL);
}
$st="PASS $password\n";
if (fwrite($fp, $st)!=strlen($st))
{
fclose($fp);
return(NULL);
}
$st=fgets($fp, 512);
fclose($fp);
if (substr($st, 0, 3)=="+OK")
return(true);
else if (substr($st, 0, 4)=="+ERR")
return(false);
else
return(NULL);
}
?>
19-Dec-2006 10:20
here is my contribution for parsing chunked data.
please note: this function simply handles the RESPONSE, not the HEADERS, it would be your job to check the headers for 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' field:
<?php
function parseChunked($response) {
$do = true;
$return = "";
$size = NULL;
while($do) {
// suppress warnings w/ @ if offset not in string (past end)
$pos = @strpos($response, "\r\n", 0);
if(!($pos === false) && $size === NULL) {
// we found CRLF, get len from hex
$size = hexdec(substr($response, 0, $pos));
// get the actual chunk-len, reset $response, $size
$return .= substr($response, $pos+2, $size);
$response = substr($response, ($pos+2) + $size);
$size = NULL;
}
else {
