Dear Sirs,
I am using PHP 4.0.1pl2 under Apache with Windows 98.
I am trying to create a persistant sockets connection which I can use from different php files.

I find I can happily send packets to (and receive from) this server from the php script where I open the connection.

However, I cannot pass my file handle across php scripts, or get this working in a different script by holding the file handle in a session variable.

My script temp.
<?php
    $mysocket = pfsockopen ("10.0.0.62", 23, &$errno, &$errstr);
    header ("Location: http://wood/temp2.php ?mysocket=".urlencode($mysocket));
?>

and temp2 which is called from temp.

<?php
fputs ($mysocket, "Hello");
$message= fgets ($mysocket, 256);
?>

The error output is shown below. I have also echoed the file handle. It is Resource id #1.

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in c:/apache/htdocs/temp2.php on line 6

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in c:/apache/htdocs/temp2.php on line 7

Thanks for your time
  Gavin Wood