PHP 4.0 Bug #6266: fgets() never timeout used in a HTTP connection

From: joel.jacobson@mobigym.se Operating system: Linux 2.2.15 PHP version: 4.0.1pl2 PHP Bug Type: Misbehaving function Bug description: fgets() never timeout used in a HTTP connection The example below sometimes hangs my PHP script because of my slow Internet connection: <?php $fp = fopen ( 'http://www.php.net/', 'r' ); while ( !feof($fp) ) $data .= fgets ( $fp, 1024 ); fclose ( $fp ); ?> The fgets function is the problem. There is no way to speficy a timeout limit for this function. I think it's necessary in some cases. It's very anyoing when the PHP script just hangs. A web browser like Netscape tries to download the same document many times. That's a very good solution. But it's not possible to do the same in PHP at the moment. I would be pleased if you could fix this. Maybe by let the programmer specify a optional third timeout parameter to the fgets function.