note 20114 added to function.fsockopen

Has anyone seen the timeout parameter on fsockopen() actually WORK? I'm running PHP 4.0.6 on a linux system. I'm using fsockopen(), fputs() and fread() to retrieve the headers of a remote file. The key elements of the test script are: $fp = fsockopen("www.krasnapolsky.sr", 80, &$errno, &$errstr, 0.2); fputs($fp, "HEAD /default.htm HTTP/1.0\nHost:www.krasnapolsky.sr\n\n"); $response=fread($fp, 1024); // (note that I'm deliberately using www.krasnapolsky.sr because I know it's very slow from my location in the U.S.) By using a timer based on microtime(); I see that the actual fsockopen() step is taking up to 3.5 seconds without failing. As far as I can tell, I'm telling PHP to fail if the connect takes more than 0.2 seconds. The function signature does specify that the timeout parameter is of type float (and I've tried 1 with no better luck). The script works fine (retrieves the headers), but I can't tolerate the possibility that it might hang for many seconds -- I'd rather the script give up after a second or so. BTW, I've found that calling socket_set_timeout($fp, 0, 250); after fsockopen DOES let me limit the fputs(); and fread(); to 0.25 seconds. But... that's not useful in limiting the actual socket connect call. Thanks for any insights or help. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+20114 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+20114 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+20114