Re: ftp_rawlist problems

This is a known bug on the windows platform. It has been fixed in CVS, and is most likly fixed in the current 4.3.0pre2 release. I experience this problem a few weeks ago, but once I downloaded the lastest CVS Snapshot it worked as expected. hope this helps Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex" <lordanthron@yahoo.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 12:27 AM Subject: [PHP] ftp_rawlist problems > I'm writing a script which crawls through ftp servers, retrieving file > listings and saving them to a DB so they may be searched. > > What happens, is the script connects to the ftp server, and asks for a > listing of a directory. The ftp server apparentally sends the script the > file listing, but then the script hangs. I have absolutely no idea what > causes the problem. > To combat this problem, I have a loop which keeps looping until ftp_rawlist > actually returns something valid. > $files = false; > while (! is_array($files)) > { > $files = ftp_rawlist($conn, $dir); > } > That, along with > ftp_set_option($conn, FTP_TIMEOUT_SEC, 3); > Seems to fix the problem for now, but I would still like to know what's > going on. > > Please note... > I'm running PHP 4.2.1 as a module with apache 1.3.x on a win2k machine. The > server I am using for testing, if it should make any difference, is > Filezilla 0.7.2. > Also, this problem does not occur every time a directory listing is > requested, but perhaps every 15-20 directories. In any case, which directory > php stalls on is random. > > If anyone else has ever encountered this problem, or has any idea what is > going on, I would be very interested in hearing what you have to say :). > > - Alex > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >