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-<?php
-/**
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-/**
- * LoggerAppenderSocket appends to a network socket.
- *
- * ## Configurable parameters: ##
- *
- * - **remoteHost** - Target remote host.
- * - **port** - Target port (optional, defaults to 4446).
- * - **timeout** - Connection timeout in seconds (optional, defaults to
- *     'default_socket_timeout' from php.ini)
- *
- * The socket will by default be opened in blocking mode.
- *
- * @version $Revision: 1337820 $
- * @package log4php
- * @subpackage appenders
- * @license http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Apache License, Version 2.0
- * @link http://logging.apache.org/log4php/docs/appenders/socket.html Appender documentation
- */
-class LoggerAppenderSocket extends LoggerAppender {
-
-    /**
-     * Target host.
-     * @see http://php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php
-     */
-    protected $remoteHost;
-
-    /** Target port */
-    protected $port = 4446;
-
-    /** Connection timeout in ms. */
-    protected $timeout;
-
-    // ******************************************
-    // *** Appender methods                   ***
-    // ******************************************
-
-    /** Override the default layout to use serialized. */
-    public function getDefaultLayout() {
-        return new LoggerLayoutSerialized();
-    }
-
-    public function activateOptions() {
-        if (empty($this->remoteHost)) {
-            $this->warn("Required parameter [remoteHost] not set. Closing appender.");
-            $this->closed = true;
-            return;
-        }
-
-        if (empty($this->timeout)) {
-            $this->timeout = ini_get("default_socket_timeout");
-        }
-
-        $this->closed = false;
-    }
-
-    public function append(LoggerLoggingEvent $event) {
-        $socket = fsockopen($this->remoteHost, $this->port, $errno, $errstr, $this->timeout);
-        if ($socket === false) {
-            $this->warn("Could not open socket to {$this->remoteHost}:{$this->port}. Closing appender.");
-            $this->closed = true;
-            return;
-        }
-
-        if (false === fwrite($socket, $this->layout->format($event))) {
-            $this->warn("Error writing to socket. Closing appender.");
-            $this->closed = true;
-        }
-        fclose($socket);
-    }
-
-    // ******************************************
-    // *** Accessor methods                   ***
-    // ******************************************
-
-    /** Sets the target host. */
-    public function setRemoteHost($hostname) {
-        $this->setString('remoteHost', $hostname);
-    }
-
-    /** Sets the target port */
-    public function setPort($port) {
-        $this->setPositiveInteger('port', $port);
-    }
-
-    /** Sets the timeout. */
-    public function setTimeout($timeout) {
-        $this->setPositiveInteger('timeout', $timeout);
-    }
-
-    /** Returns the target host. */
-    public function getRemoteHost() {
-        return $this->getRemoteHost();
-    }
-
-    /** Returns the target port. */
-    public function getPort() {
-        return $this->port;
-    }
-
-    /** Returns the timeout */
-    public function getTimeout() {
-        return $this->timeout;
-    }
-}