reopening url on failure

[sylvian stone]

Hi,

I was trying to code a script whereby I use fscokopen to load a webpage
into a string, then parse the code.

However, because of occasional timeouts and failures, I was trying to
add a method to attempt to try and reload the URL, say five times,
before it gives up and moves on.

I was playing around with 'do-while' strings, but can't seem to think
my way round this one.

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance.
SS.

[Mike Willbanks]

Why use a do while when a for loop will work just as well? I really do
not know what your while case is but that works.

This is a way you could do it...

$has_timed_out = true; //expect it to time out
$iterations = 0;
do {
$iterations++;
fsockopen(....);
while(!feof(...)) {
$page = fgets(....);
}
fclose(...);
if (!empty($page)) {
$has_timed_out = false;
}
} while ($has_timed_out && ($iterations<5));

Hope that helps.

Hi,

I was trying to code a script whereby I use fscokopen to load a webpage
into a string, then parse the code.

However, because of occasional timeouts and failures, I was trying to
add a method to attempt to try and reload the URL, say five times,
before it gives up and moves on.

I was playing around with 'do-while' strings, but can't seem to think
my way round this one.

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance.
SS.

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

sylvian stone wrote:

Hi,

I was trying to code a script whereby I use fscokopen to load a webpage
into a string, then parse the code.

However, because of occasional timeouts and failures, I was trying to
add a method to attempt to try and reload the URL, say five times,
before it gives up and moves on.

Set timeout parameter to high <http://in2.php.net/fsockopen> . But,
beware the script will hang. If you use session, you should close it;
otherwise, even other scripts will hang.

You seems to be right. AFAIK, the possibility is
<http://in.php.net/ob_start> and <http://in.php.net/preg_replace>

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[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:

sylvian stone wrote: <snip> You seems to be right. AFAIK, the possibility is
<http://in.php.net/ob_start> and <http://in.php.net/preg_replace>

Oops! Not sure, how it snuck in here.

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