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php-http/socket-client
======================

Socket client for PHP-HTTP

2.4.0(4mo ago)812.5M—2.6%42[1 PRs](https://github.com/php-http/socket-client/pulls)20MITPHPPHP ^8.1CI passing

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Socket Client for PHP HTTP
==========================

[](#socket-client-for-php-http)

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The socket client use the stream extension from PHP, which is integrated into the core.

Features
--------

[](#features)

- TCP Socket Domain (tcp://hostname:port)
- UNIX Socket Domain (unix:///path/to/socket.sock)
- TLS / SSL Encyrption
- Client Certificate (only for php > 5.6)

Installation and Usage
----------------------

[](#installation-and-usage)

[Read the documentation at http://docs.php-http.org/en/latest/clients/socket-client.html](http://docs.php-http.org/en/latest/clients/socket-client.html)

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

First launch the http server:

```
$ ./vendor/bin/http_test_server > /dev/null 2>&1 &
```

Then generate SSL certificates:

```
$ composer gen-ssl
```

Note: If you are running this on macOS and get the following error: "Error opening CA Private Key privkey.pem", check [this](ssl-macOS.md) file.

Now run the test suite:

```
$ composer test
```

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Please see our [contributing guide](http://docs.php-http.org/en/latest/development/contributing.html).

Security
--------

[](#security)

If you discover any security related issues, please contact us at .

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE) for more information.

###  Health Score

67

—

FairBetter than 100% of packages

Maintenance76

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity58

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community43

Growing community involvement

Maturity80

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 53.2% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~216 days

Recently: every ~310 days

Total

18

Last Release

128d ago

Major Versions

v0.2.0 → v1.0.02016-01-26

v1.4.1 → 2.0.0-beta12019-12-11

PHP version history (6 changes)v0.1.0PHP >=5.4

v1.2.0PHP ^5.5 || ^7.0

2.0.0-beta1PHP ^7.1

2.1.0PHP >=7.1

2.1.1PHP ^7.2 || ^8.0

2.3.0PHP ^8.1

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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###  Code Quality

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