Re: Fastest way to read from an url?

> Nick Wilson wrote: > * and then Stefan Rusterholz blurted.... > > Yes, I *have* to use php. > > Hmm... Then I can't see any way to speed it up as presumably the php > proccessing is slowing it all down. I hope someone can be of more help > as it's an interesting thread. No, it's definitifly *not* the php processing which is slowing it down. Processing 15 files of totally 25MB from the remote host takes approximatly 2 minutes while processing exactly the same files from localhost takes approximatly 10s. So it's definitfly the slow fetching of the data from the remote host which slows the script down. What I could think of is that PHP has something built-in thought as feature: that php automatically slows down remote connections to not "kill" the remote server by slurping everything with max. speed (just like the UA-Robots modul extending the libwww module for Perl). But in my case it's more important that files are slurped fast when needed even at the price that the remote servers resources are all used for the download. best regards Stefan Rusterholz