2009/10/13 Andrea Giammarchi <an_...@hotmail.com>: > >> > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 0); >> >> I wouldn't recommend setting this to 0 unless you're very sure that >> the connection will succeed; otherwise, your script will hang >> indefinitely waiting for the connection to be made. > > agreed, it's just he set timeout to zero so I guess he meant the curl > connection as well otherwise it does not make sense to set the timeout to 0 > if curl has 10 seconds timeout :-) > > Regards
If he wants to download a very large file then it would make sense to set_time_limit(0) but leave the curl connect timeout enabled; he wouldn't want the PHP script timing out partway through a large download. :) The curl timeout isn't for the transfer; just for making the connection. Regards, Torben -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
