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Bug #31090 fwrite (supposed to be binary safe) sends string regardless of variable type
Submitted: 2004-12-14 17:18 UTC Modified: 2004-12-15 21:36 UTC
From: ifirla at aegissrl dot it Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Sockets related
PHP Version: 4.3.9 OS: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2004-12-14 17:18 UTC] ifirla at aegissrl dot it
Description:
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an array holds elements of various types:

ascii|integer|integer|integer|integer

in a foreach loop, sending each element to a socket opened with fsockopen sends the elements as strings, not as the character type.

gettype within the foreach loop shows that I'm sending dealing with the correct types:

16:39:54 SENT     'K' of type string
16:39:54 SENT     '0' of type integer
16:39:54 SENT     '0' of type integer
16:39:54 SENT     '65' of type integer
16:39:54 SENT     '31' of type integer

fwrite is, according to the documentation, supposed to be binary safe.

I think there's a bug in fwrite that has it send all elements as strings.

Reproduce code:
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function send_back($sock, $msg, $ip, $port) {
	$fp = fsockopen("udp://$ip", "$port");
	foreach ($msg as $msg_to_send) {
		fwrite($fp, $msg_to_send);
		echo date("H:i:s")." SENT     '$msg_to_send' of type ".gettype($msg_to_send)." \n"; //seen server side
	}
	fclose($fp);
}

Expected result:
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running a packet sniffer, I can see that what's being sent are strings:

15:46:10  192.168.0.101:32778 --> 192.168.0.84:32896 | UDP |

 0000: 4b                                       K


15:46:10  192.168.0.101:32778 --> 192.168.0.84:32896 | UDP |


 0000: 30                                       0


15:46:10  192.168.0.101:32778 --> 192.168.0.84:32896 | UDP |

 0000: 30                                       0


15:46:10  192.168.0.101:32778 --> 192.168.0.84:32896 | UDP |

 0000: 3635                                     65


15:46:10  192.168.0.101:32778 --> 192.168.0.84:32896 | UDP |

 0000: 3331                                     31

Actual result:
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Those last two (65 and 31) should be represented by single bytes, not two bytes.


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 [2004-12-15 01:05 UTC] sniper@php.net
Here's the proto for fwrite():

int fwrite ( resource handle, string string [, int length])

See the 3rd parameter? Give the length to the function.
Also note the 2nd parameter type..

No bug here.

 [2004-12-15 21:36 UTC] wez@php.net
you need to pack() if you want to send a 32 bit integer
 
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