[PHP] Re: Time out for file()?

2001-11-15 Thread Richard Lynch
Jean-Arthur Silve wrote: Hi ! I use the file function for accessing to pages on another server. It works perfectly. But if the server does not respond or is too long to send datas, the file function wait too long.. Is there a way to tune the time out ?? I would like that id the

[PHP] Re: Time out for file()?

2001-11-14 Thread _lallous
from the manual ?php $fp = fsockopen(www.php.net, 80); if(!$fp) { echo Unable to open\n; } else { fputs($fp,GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n); $start = time(); socket_set_timeout($fp, 2); $res = fread($fp, 2000); //var_dump(socket_get_status($fp)); fclose($fp); print $res; } ?

[PHP] Re: Time out for file()? - Use fsockopen

2001-11-14 Thread George Whiffen
Jean-Arthur, Your set_time_limit/shutdown function solution looks like a clever trick. If you can come up with that you might just as well do the proper job with an fsockopen and socket_set_timeout. The manual pages on fsockopen, socket_set_timeout plus the user comments have plenty of useful