So I've been poring over the docs for the new stream stuff, and it looks pretty nifty, except... I'd really like to be able to just hand a URL to PHP like: http://php.net/manual/en/ref.stream.php And let PHP figure out how to create a stream context out of that, and which port to use, and how to do the GET to start things off, so I can just read my data. In other words, I'm greedy, and I want *BOTH* the simplicity of fopen() *and* the flexiblity of adding filters and all the fun new stuff. I don't want to have to tear apart the URL myself and mess with sending 'GET ...' and 'host: ...' Did I miss a stream_url_to_context() function somewhere?... Not just parse_url() -- That will tear apart the URL, but then I have to do all the work that's buried in fopen() Bigger Picture: I have an old class that will take an array of HTTP URLs, and fsockopen them, set them non-blocking, and then fread() each in turn, and gather an array of results. The class has a 'timeout' parameter that limits how long it will wait for all this to happen. Each result set is marked as complete or incomplete. Complete results may be cached, for however long you choose in another setting. If results are incomplete, the cached version is used, no matter how obsolete. (This is for a search engine.) Blah, blah, blah. Anyway, I'd *LIKE* to be able to just allow *ANY* URL to be passed in, and have some nifty stream function, not unlike fopen(), that will take care of the grotty details of doing whatever it takes to get the data, but let me set the socket non-blocking and read them asynchronously. I feel like I must be missing something fundamentally simple here in all this stream stuff, but it's sure not obvious what I'm missing in the docs. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
