On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 02:27, Wez Furlong wrote:
> I don't like it being enabled by default either, since it is experimental,
> unstable and broken.
>
> (and streams provides stream_socket_server() and stream_socket_client() as
> replacements for the most common uses of ext/sockets).
>
Well, I dare say its less experimental than streams. Sockets has been
in production use for quite awhile now, the EXPERIMENTAL is just lying
around there.
streams provides a reasonable abstraction, but it doesn't provide the
low-level access that is a pretty common requirement. Sockets provides
this without requiring anything extra, so why not use it?
As for security implications, it was related to socket timeouts, which
are readily available with streams anyhow. So that's not an issue
either.
-Sterling
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