Posted by Erwin Moller on 01/29/07 12:07

Aetherweb wrote:

> On my site I'm reading content from a URL with a statement like this:
>
> if ($fp = @fopen("http://www.mydom.com/test.aspx", "r"))
> {
> do something
> }
> else
> {
> do something else
> }
>
> Which works absolutely fine if the remote site works, and fine if it's
> totally unavailable... but sometimes the remote site allows the
> connection, but takes EONS to server up any data. Which is totally
> locking up my site.
>
> How could I go about having some kind of timeout on the file open
> operation?

Hi,

fopen() can indeed handle URLs and return their content as it were a file
(using the fopenwrappers).

But if you need more control, you should use a socket.
Have a look at fsockopen:
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

look at the last parameter (timeout).

Regards,
Erwin Moller


>
> TIA

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