Re: PHP libraries? Function to open remote http doc

> results before passing them back to the user). I've written a real kludge > of a function that does basically what I need (sort of like fopen, but > read-only and with an optional headers field so the caller can pass it > httpd auth and cookies and what-not), but I can't help but think that this > sort of function is something which should have been needed by countless > others already and that someone has already written a complete implementation. > > Perhaps there's a library which incorporates such a function? I don't know of one, but I want it. > I also note extreme server loading (a single httpd process can consume 90%+ > of CPU) when fetching remote files like so: > > while ( $feof( $fp ) ) > { > $line = fread( $fp, 4096 ); > fwrite( $fo, $line ); > } > > Once negotiation is performed, this is the beef of the script. Put in some timing code to be sure that you are spending time in this loop. If you really *are* spending time there, about all I can suggest is altering 4096 to other numbers in the hopes of hitting upon some sort of cache/packet boundary that lets the two machines talk in sync better or something weird like that... Or... is $fo a file? That's going to be pretty slow. Can't you store the stuff in RAM?