Re: Set_time_limit trouble

Anyone got any comment on that ? Thanks in advance. Later Chand On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 01:36:08 +0200 Mark Villemade <chand@noos.fr> wrote: > hi all, > > i don't know if i have already asked you about this, but i guess not. > > here's my trouble. On one of our application on Lycos Portals, we have a script that makes > an fsockopen on an external server that checks out credit cards and stuff. That server only checks > one card at a time, so if i have 5 clients clicking on 'check' at the 'same' > time, they will be queued and treated in order. > > The trouble is, even though i have set_time_limit(0) at the beginning of my script (and > i'm not in safe_mode), if the server takes more than 30 seconds to send an answer back on the > socket, the script dies from hitting max_execution_time. > > I have found out that printing anything before the fsockopen() stops that behavior but i > can't use that trick cause i need to use a header() function depending on the result of the > server. Of course i could use output buffering to be able to write an echo and still use header() > but that's a hack and not a solution to what could be a bigger problem here. > > This is on php 4.0.6 (not patched like the one i patch for the members' use. This is for > Portals). > > Anyone got a rough idea of what could happen and how i could solve this problem ? It's > getting more and more annoying for us since we get more and more clients and the credit card > checkin' server queues more and more .. > > Is it a 4.0.6 known bug solved in later versions ? > > Thanks for any insight. > > Later > > Chand > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >