note 101026 added to function.file-get-contents

If your file_get_contents freezes during several seconds, here is maybe your answer: Beware that the default keepalive timeout of Apache 2.0 httpd is 15 seconds. This is true for HTTP/1.1 connections, which is not the default behavior of file_get_contents but you can force it, especially if you are trying to act as a web browser. I don't know if this is also the case for HTTP/1.0 connections. Forcing the server to close the connection would make you gain those 15 seconds in your script: $context = stream_context_create(array('http' => array('header'=>'Connection: close'))); $content = file_get_contents("http://www.somesite.com/test.html"); Another way of resolving slowness issues is to use cURL or fsockopen. Bear in mind that contrary to the behavior of web browsers, file_get_contents doesn't return the result when the web page is fully downloaded (i.e. HTTP payload length = value of the response HTTP "Content-Length" header) but when the TCP connection is closed. I hope this behavior will change in future releases of PHP. This has been experienced with PHP 5.3.3. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 88.165.128.79 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/101026 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/101026/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/101026/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/101026/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/101026/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/101026/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/101026/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/101026 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/101026 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php