> > 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.
I checked the manual. From the example, it is apparently that timeout only
works for the handle setup by fsockopen, but not for fsockopen itself.
Alex
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