Re: socket timeout

Hi, apparently this does not work with socket_read() but only with higher level socket functions (fread etc). However I have found a function called socket_set_nonblock(socketname) which apparently does something very similar, it prevents the socket_read from waiting to receive data. I simply built my own timeout loop into the code and voila!! Gareth "Gareth Thomas" <gdthomas@mercurysoft.com> wrote in message news:20021205164120.91303.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi, > > I am attempting to timeout a socket_read() that is part of a handshaking > process using socket_set_timeout(). Problem is it doesn't seem to work at > all. If I switch of the handshaking write on the server side the read just > sits there and doesn't time out at all. I have tried > socket_set_timeout($socket,1) which I believe is 1 second and it never times > out... > > Any thoughts on this would be most appreciated. > > Gareth > >