Re: CURL and process not finishing

john@shortstay-london.com wrote:

----- 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:

<snip>

* 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

Problems with this one.

* 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

That's a bad link there (in case you didn't notice it).

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

Set the set_time_limit to 0 (unlimited). Sounds like the script is just timing out. -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/