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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/28/86 11:54
yawnmoth wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>>yawnmoth wrote:
>><snip>
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>>What happens if the fsockopen() takes longer than 5 seconds?
>>
>>See the note on fsockopen() - the timeout may not be available in all
>>environments. So a delay due to routing, server load or whatever may
>>cause the open to take longer than 5 seconds, putting a negative value
>>in your $timeout. I don't know what PHP will do with a negative value -
>>maybe convert it to a very large positive value?
>
> That's a good point - it's been fixed :)
>
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>>Additionally, the timeout restarts every time you go a fgets(). The
>>server could be sending one line every 4 seconds, for instance. 10
>>lines would be 40 seconds with no errors.
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> So I guess I should just use fread with as big a number as possible?
> Like pow(2,20) or something?
>
> The fact that fgets (and fread), though, can return empty lines, even
> when they're in blocking mode, makes me think that this wouldn't work?
> (I made another post about this)
>
Could be. I haven't seen that occur, but there could be a bug in it.
You could try a big fread() call. Don't know what it will do. I
haven't used the timeout parm like that. Normally I want to get the
results even if it takes a few second.
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