note 7875 deleted from fopen by ronabop

oooh! madness! I am working on a script that goes through a list of urls, opens them and parses them... trouble is, a few of these urls are unreliable or unavailable, and lock up fopen() fopen (the url wrapper portion of it at any rate) desperately needs some kind of timeout so that trying to open a file on a server which is not responding wont freeze the whole bloddy script (which is especially bad if you happen to be using ignore_user_abort(true) ) I should mention that I am using PHP 3.0.17 (I havent been able to talk my admin into upgrading to PHP4) and if this bug has been fixed already, I would love to know (it would be great ammo for provoking him to upgrade)