Posted by Nicholas W . Miller on 03/05/05 00:21

I'm writing a script that needs to put the contents of an external URL
into a variable. I need to include some sort of error checking that
will kill this request if for some reason the URL request hangs for
more then 15 seconds. In researching this, I think the correct
function to use is fsockopen, but I can't seem to get it to work. Can
someone verify if fsockopen is the best way to grab an external URL,
but kill the request if it hangs for a certain amount of time ... and
if so, show me some sample code on how to place this URL's contents
into a variable that I can then parse. The URL will be hard coded into
the script, so I don't need a lot of error checking to insure correct
URL format, etc.

Thanks,

Nicholas Miller
Intercast Media, Inc.
229 19th Ave. Suite 4
San Francisco, CA 94121
415-379-9500
415-520-9501 (fax)
nick@intercastmedia.com

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