Replace hoa/socket with something else

[mallardduck]

Nothing wrong with hoa/socket it served a great purpose of getting the package this far. However if I can replace it with something more simple then that would be better.

The hoa/socket library depends on a number of hoa libraries that I don't need or use. So removing their usage could help improve maintainability over the long term.

[mallardduck]

Option 1: Write a whois:// streamWrapper as a separate dependency

Per the title, this would involve creating a separate package that simply creates a PHP streamWrapper to handle whois look ups. It may provide some helpers to register said wrapper depending on context of use.

Resources:

• https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-wrapper-register.php
• https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.streamwrapper.php

[mallardduck]

Option 2: Use an existing socket/stream client library

clue/php-socket-raw

• Active development
• Has CI and Tests setup. Not complete coverage but decent.

[mallardduck]

Option 3: Write a thin client in this library.

A wild challenger appeared and won. This is implemented in master a41c33314cc69449b354b05f825db9582e251728