In general, if anyone has such a problem (the answer found on page 4 in Google at the end), then you need to do the following (this solution is not only suitable for symfony):
<?php namespace Calc\ApiBundle\Command\Sockets; use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Command\ContainerAwareCommand; use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface; use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface; class HttpClientCommand extends ContainerAwareCommand { protected function configure() { $this->setName('server:run') ->setDescription('ŠŠ°ŠæŃŃŠŗŠ°ŠµŠ¼ ŃŠ¾ŠŗŠµŃ.'); } protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output) { $socket = stream_socket_client('tcp://localhost:8080', $errorNumber, $errorString, 1); if (!$socket) { echo "{$errorString} ({$errorNumber})<br />\n"; } else { $data = "first message"; $head = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n" . "Host: localhost\r\n" . "Upgrade: websocket\r\n" . "Connection: Upgrade\r\n" . "Sec-WebSocket-Key: tQXaRIOk4sOhqwe7SBs43g==\r\n" . "Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13\r\n" . "Content-Length: ".strlen($data)."\r\n"."\r\n"; fwrite($socket, $head); $headers = fread($socket, 2000); echo $headers; fwrite($socket, $this->hybi10Encode($data)); $wsdata = fread($socket, 2000); var_dump($this->hybi10Decode($wsdata)); fclose($socket); /*fwrite($socket, $header); while (!feof($socket)) { $context = fgets($socket, 1024); echo($context); } fclose($socket);*/ } } private function hybi10Decode($data) { $bytes = $data; $dataLength = ''; $mask = ''; $coded_data = ''; $decodedData = ''; $secondByte = sprintf('%08b', ord($bytes[1])); $masked = ($secondByte[0] == '1') ? true : false; $dataLength = ($masked === true) ? ord($bytes[1]) & 127 : ord($bytes[1]); if($masked === true) { if($dataLength === 126) { $mask = substr($bytes, 4, 4); $coded_data = substr($bytes, 8); } elseif($dataLength === 127) { $mask = substr($bytes, 10, 4); $coded_data = substr($bytes, 14); } else { $mask = substr($bytes, 2, 4); $coded_data = substr($bytes, 6); } for($i = 0; $i < strlen($coded_data); $i++) { $decodedData .= $coded_data[$i] ^ $mask[$i % 4]; } } else { if($dataLength === 126) { $decodedData = substr($bytes, 4); } elseif($dataLength === 127) { $decodedData = substr($bytes, 10); } else { $decodedData = substr($bytes, 2); } } return $decodedData; } private function hybi10Encode($payload, $type = 'text', $masked = true) { $frameHead = array(); $frame = ''; $payloadLength = strlen($payload); switch ($type) { case 'text': // first byte indicates FIN, Text-Frame (10000001): $frameHead[0] = 129; break; case 'close': // first byte indicates FIN, Close Frame(10001000): $frameHead[0] = 136; break; case 'ping': // first byte indicates FIN, Ping frame (10001001): $frameHead[0] = 137; break; case 'pong': // first byte indicates FIN, Pong frame (10001010): $frameHead[0] = 138; break; } // set mask and payload length (using 1, 3 or 9 bytes) if ($payloadLength > 65535) { $payloadLengthBin = str_split(sprintf('%064b', $payloadLength), 8); $frameHead[1] = ($masked === true) ? 255 : 127; for ($i = 0; $i < 8; $i++) { $frameHead[$i + 2] = bindec($payloadLengthBin[$i]); } // most significant bit MUST be 0 (close connection if frame too big) if ($frameHead[2] > 127) { $this->close(1004); return false; } } elseif ($payloadLength > 125) { $payloadLengthBin = str_split(sprintf('%016b', $payloadLength), 8); $frameHead[1] = ($masked === true) ? 254 : 126; $frameHead[2] = bindec($payloadLengthBin[0]); $frameHead[3] = bindec($payloadLengthBin[1]); } else { $frameHead[1] = ($masked === true) ? $payloadLength + 128 : $payloadLength; } // convert frame-head to string: foreach (array_keys($frameHead) as $i) { $frameHead[$i] = chr($frameHead[$i]); } if ($masked === true) { // generate a random mask: $mask = array(); for ($i = 0; $i < 4; $i++) { $mask[$i] = chr(rand(0, 255)); } $frameHead = array_merge($frameHead, $mask); } $frame = implode('', $frameHead); // append payload to frame: for ($i = 0; $i < $payloadLength; $i++) { $frame .= ($masked === true) ? $payload[$i] ^ $mask[$i % 4] : $payload[$i]; } return $frame; } }