Re: stream_set_timeout() mystery

I can't use a bad URL because the fopen fails. I assumed from reading the manual that if I started stream_set_timeout() it would monitor the stream and do something when it reached the timeout, either truncate my data stream or show up as [timed_out] => true. It doesn't appear to do anything. I can set the timeout down to microseconds and/or read a 4mb remote file and nothing appears to happen. The 4mb file is read fully and [timed_out] => never changes for small or large files, microseconds or 600 seconds. I did a function_exists() on stream_set_timeout() and it's fine and I have all errors on and nothing unusual shows up. php version is 4.3.10 Richard Lynch wrote:

Al wrote:

Hi Richard, thanks for the help. Note I have the timeout set for 1 microsec, have tried several values, eg, 100ms, 1 sec, etc. I even used a 4mb file and it did nothing. It seems as if stream_set_timeout() does nothing. Note in socket_get_status(), [timed_out] => is always false.

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/ \ / \ Lost data because your time-out expired Possibly you have such a good connection, it never times out. Try connection to something that's not there -- Like: $URL_full = 'http://example.com';