Re: How to set a timeout limit for a call of a connection?

> > I have a script in which there is a call to open a remote file: > > > > fopen > > ("http://www.somewhere.com/file.php?foo=bar", > > "r"); > > > > Sometimes if www.somewhere.com is down, it will stuck at the function > > for very long a time. I hope to setup a timeout limit for this > function > > (just > > this), so that it won't stay very long to wait for a result, but just > quit > > if the > > call take a time longer than timeout limit, and then go on for next > steps. > > You can't control the timeout with fopen(). Try looking at fsockopen(). > You can set a timeout for that. I checked the manual. From the example, it is apparently that timeout only works for the handle setup by fsockopen, but not for fsockopen itself. Alex > > ---John W. Holmes... > > PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy > today. http://www.phparch.com/ > >