Setting a timeout when using fopen.

[Aetherweb]

On my site I'm reading content from a URL with a statement like this:

if ($fp = @fopen("http://www.mydom.com/test.aspx", "r"))
{
do something
}
else
{
do something else
}

Which works absolutely fine if the remote site works, and fine if it's
totally unavailable... but sometimes the remote site allows the
connection, but takes EONS to server up any data. Which is totally
locking up my site.

How could I go about having some kind of timeout on the file open
operation?

TIA

[Erwin Moller]

Aetherweb wrote:

On my site I'm reading content from a URL with a statement like this:

if ($fp = @fopen("http://www.mydom.com/test.aspx", "r"))
{
do something
}
else
{
do something else
}

Which works absolutely fine if the remote site works, and fine if it's
totally unavailable... but sometimes the remote site allows the
connection, but takes EONS to server up any data. Which is totally
locking up my site.

How could I go about having some kind of timeout on the file open
operation?

Hi,

fopen() can indeed handle URLs and return their content as it were a file
(using the fopenwrappers).

But if you need more control, you should use a socket.
Have a look at fsockopen:
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

look at the last parameter (timeout).

Regards,
Erwin Moller

>
TIA

[Erwin Moller]

Erwin Moller wrote:

Aetherweb wrote:

>On my site I'm reading content from a URL with a statement like this:

if ($fp = @fopen("http://www.mydom.com/test.aspx", "r"))
{
do something
}
else
{
do something else
}

Which works absolutely fine if the remote site works, and fine if it's
totally unavailable... but sometimes the remote site allows the
connection, but takes EONS to server up any data. Which is totally
locking up my site.

How could I go about having some kind of timeout on the file open
operation?

Hi,

fopen() can indeed handle URLs and return their content as it were a file
(using the fopenwrappers).

But if you need more control, you should use a socket.
Have a look at fsockopen:
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

look at the last parameter (timeout).

AHUM, scratch that last remark. ;-)

That timeout is only for the connectionprocess.
You need an extra function: stream_set_timeout() as described in the text.

Good luck.

Reagrds,
Erwin Moller

>
Regards,
Erwin Moller

>>
TIA

[P Pulkkinen]

I really love these fancy acronyms like EONS. Perhaps the answer to original
question could be simple, but even after programming php for couple of
yaers, I have not yet hit my head to this acronym. Acronymfinders give me 7
different solutions, but none of them seems very right :-)

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Electronic Output Network System

[Rik]

P Pulkkinen <pe*************************@POISTATAMA.elisanet.f iwrote:

I really love these fancy acronyms like EONS. Perhaps the answer to
original
question could be simple, but even after programming php for couple of
yaers, I have not yet hit my head to this acronym. Acronymfinders give
me 7
different solutions, but none of them seems very right :-)

That's because it isn't an acronym. The OP made it somewhat harder on us
by using capitals, but an eon is just a geological time-period.
--
Rik Wasmus