Timeout issue-does not work even when timeout is set

Hi, I have this class that creates a web service client and call the method. It took 18s for the script to finish executing. I will get the time out read from ip when I run the script. But this only happened when I am using a browser or command-line, not with XMLspy to send the request. I have set the timeout variable as advised by other posts in this newsgroup. Funny that it works for them but not for me. My code: $client = new SOAP_Client($this->config['wsdlURL']); $client->setOpt('timeout', 200); Is there any other methods to make this work? Could it be because of I am using a script to call the web service that caused the timeout?(note that when using XMLspy to call the web service, it is working) Thanks for replying Ai Leen