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[Phil Powell]

Oh sorry..

$time = time();

And I can't use sockets, I tried and it produced nasty errors.. I can only
do it this way, but I might change the while to an if

Phil
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Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Fw: PHP script needs to timeout upon FOPEN to URL


> 1. I don't see that you assign anything to $time and also you are not
> incrementing it.
> 2. To do while loop like this is very dangerous. (Might cause you to open
a
> lot of file pointer to the same file)
> 3. Maybe you can use a socket instead.
>
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> From: "soazine at pop.erols.com" <soazine at pop.mail.rcn.net>
> To: <soazine at erols.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 5:13 PM
> Subject: PHP script needs to timeout upon FOPEN to URL
>
>
> I have the following line:
>
> while (!($file = @fopen("http://www.myurl.com", "r")) && time() <
> $startTime + $time);
> if (!$file){
>   echo "Timed out, try again later";
> } else {
>   // do stuff
> }
>
> Problem is, when it attempts to connect to the remote server, it's
supposed
> to time out after 2-5 seconds, but it doesn't, it just locks up :(  Any
> suggestions?
>
> Phil
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