Re: CURL and process not finishing

----- Original Message ----- From: "chris smith" <dmagick@gmail.com> To: <john@shortstay-london.com> Cc: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 12:08 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] CURL and process not finishing

On 1/5/07, john@shortstay-london.com <john@shortstay-london.com> wrote:

I am using CURL to check pages outside my site on the internet for some text, then I email someone on my database who supposedly looks after the site. The script creates a process that does not terminate. It is running on a scheduled cronjob so eventually my site has over the maximum of 20 processes running and it goes offline. It may be that some of the pages I check are hard to get a response from, as CURL tries to return the target URL. I have removed any emailing that it does and still get the problem. Is there any way to check that a process is not terminating after a reasonable time?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php Get the php script to terminate after a certain amount of time. You could also use this curl variable: CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT in case it's a connection issue... see http://www.php.net/curl I'd probably also try setting CURLOPT_VERBOSE to see if that reveals the actual problem rather than guessing. -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/

Thanks, Chris. This is the output: * About to connect() to www.barcelona-hotel.ws port 80 * Trying 89.171.73.117... * connected * Connected to www.barcelona-hotel.ws (89.171.73.117) port 80

GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.barcelona-hotel.ws

Accept: */* < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Content-Length: 28177 < Content-Type: text/html < Content-Location: http://www.barcelona-hotel.ws/index.htm < Last-Modified: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:23:52 GMT < Accept-Ranges: bytes < ETag: "466fd4b8e348c61:58b9" < Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 < X-Powered-By: ASP.NET < Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:01:46 GMT * Connection #0 to host www.barcelona-hotel.ws left intact * About to connect() to www.runawayexchange.com port 80 * Trying 69.56.206.170... * Connection timed out * couldn't connect to host * Closing connection #1 * About to connect() to www.runawayexchange.com port 80 * Trying 69.56.206.170... * Connection timed out * couldn't connect to host * Closing connection #1 * About to connect() to www.uktravelplanner.co.uk port 80 * Trying 212.227.38.68... * connected * Connected to www.uktravelplanner.co.uk (212.227.38.68) port 80

GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.uktravelplanner.co.uk

Accept: */* < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:03:14 GMT < Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) < X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.4 < Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=7bam2tis61sr07qli62q26uvr1; path=/ < Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT < Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 < Pragma: no-cache < Content-Length: 5722 < Connection: close < Content-Type: text/html * Closing connection #1 * About to connect() to www.uktravelplanner.co.uk port 80 * Trying 212.227.38.68... * connected * Connected to www.uktravelplanner.co.uk (212.227.38.68) port 80

GET /links.htm?? HTTP/1.1 Host: www.uktravelplanner.co.uk

Accept: */* < HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found < Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:03:14 GMT < Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Fedora) < Content-Length: 298 < Connection: close < Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 * Closing connection #1 * getaddrinfo(3) failed for http::80 * Couldn't resolve host 'http:' * Closing connection #1 * getaddrinfo(3) failed for http::80 * Couldn't resolve host 'http:' * Closing connection #1 * About to connect() to www.bed.cz port 80 * Trying 195.250.146.80... * connected * Connected to www.bed.cz (195.250.146.80) port 80

GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.bed.cz

Accept: */* < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:02:21 GMT < Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 < X-Powered-By: ASP.NET < X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727 < Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=gvugeu45lugalf55hu1x5rfq; path=/; HttpOnly < Cache-Control: private < Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 < Content-Length: 59347

...and there it stops every time. Is this a script time out, as it stops while looking at the site it is finding OK? John