Re: Timeout Function

> > 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? fputs() to write and fgets() to read. Type "PostToHost" into Google or something and you should turn up a function I wrote years ago that does something like this. It does a POST request which is a bit more complex. -Rasmus