> I have a script in which there is a call to open a remote file:
>
> fopen ("http://www.somewhere.com/file.php?foo=bar";, "r");
>
> Sometimes if www.somewhere.com is down, it will stuck at the function
> for very long a time. I hope to setup a timeout limit for this
function
> (just
> this), so that it won't stay very long to wait for a result, but just
quit
> if the
> call take a time longer than timeout limit, and then go on for next
steps.
You can't control the timeout with fopen(). Try looking at fsockopen().
You can set a timeout for that.
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