Re: Timeout Function

From: Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 22:14:20 +0000
Subject: Re: Timeout Function
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> Right, but when you are doing network work like this you should be using > fsockopen() directly which does have timeout support. readfile() with a > url argument just does a simple fsockopen anyway and issues a GET request. > Trivial to do yourself using fsockopen() and fputs() and this way you can > manage the timeouts yourself. Introducing a language-level timeout > feature is complicated. I want to *write* to the connection to do a GET request? That sort of makes sense, but how do I get what the remote server returned after I issued the request? -- Jason Sims Senior Editor & System Administrator Inside Mac Games http://www.insidemacgames.com

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