Re: Re: go-pear. Was:Re[2]: [PEAR-DEV] XML_RPC

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 19:22:37 +0200 techtonik@php.net (Anatoly Techtonik) wrote: > Sorry, my fault. There should be phrase 'internet connection > "isn\'t" available' or the word 'unavailable' in my post. I used a local pear server, it can be done sometimes. In my opininion the current error message is correct. > PAJ> Do you have any other good ideas? Calling gethostbyname > PAJ> before fsockopen is nothing than ugly and slow. > > fsockopen will call it anyway. You can try to call fsockopen with > some fiction url and meditate a bit about it's error message. I'd > be very glad if you can make a solution how to handle that error > or at least suppress to handle it later. Gethostbyname will not tell that there is an internet access. Local DNS cache or other local things can get cached dns entries. The error is to do not silent fsockopen, the io handler being checked later. I was sure it was behind an ugly '@'... Regards, --Pierre