Re: Fastest way to read from an url?

How quickly can you get other data from that same remote host? Sounds to me like it's a network bottleneck someplace. If you are downloading static data from that system at the same speed its the network. Mike Frazer "Stefan Rusterholz" <scripting@interaktion.ch> wrote in message news:009601c1a428$5839bab0$3c01a8c0@quasimodo... > > > 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 > >