How do I see if an established socket is stuck on a server that's expecting input?
- by Parker
I have a script that scans ports for open proxy servers. Problem is if it encounters a login program (specifically telnet) then it hangs there forever since it doesn't know what to do and eventually the server closes the connection.
The simple solution would be to create a bunch of cases. If telnet, do this. If SSH, do that. If something else, blah blah blah. I'd like an umbrella solution since the script is not a high priority for me.
The script, as it is now, is available at http://parkrrr.net/socks/scan.phps
On a small scale (the page maybe averages 15 hits/day) it's fine but on a larger scale I'd be worried about a lot of open zombie sockets.
Swapping the !$strpos doesn't work since servers can return more information than what you requested (headers, ads, etc).
Only accepting a fixed number of bytes (as opposed to appending until EOF, which it does now) from the $fgets also does not seem to work. I am sure this is where it gets stuck:
while (!feof($fp)) {
$data.=fgets($fp,512);
}
But what can I do? Any other suggestions/warnings would also be welcomed.
