Re: Test if URL is alive before including a remote JS

>Given I have some content embedded on my page by calling a remote JS and >occasionally the URL for the remote script is down causing my page to be >slow or fail, can I use the following example as a means to test and timeout >the remote server and skip the embedded JS, if the remote server isn't >responding properly? Mostly sorta... ><?php >$fp = fsockopen ("www.theweathernetwork.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 5); What if, in between this line and the one below, their site dies? Once you've bothered to fsockopen() to them, go whole hog and suck in the data :-) Otherwise, you are just doubling the number of HTTP connections used by your page when it *DOES* work, and that's not good for performance. >if (!$fp) { > echo "sorry, not available"; >} else { > echo "<script language=\"JavaScript\" > type=\"text/javascript\"> > <!-- var city = \"Muskoka_ON\"; //--> > </script> > <script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text/javascript\" > > src=\"http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weatherbutton/test.js\"> > </script>"; > > } >?> > > >TIA, verdon > -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm