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[Adam Fields]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:20:48AM -0500, Phil Powell wrote:
> I have a question about the usage of fsockopen() to open and "scrape" the contents of a remote URL: if the contents take a very long time to load on the remote URL either due to server or coding issues, is there a way for the socket on the PHP end to time out, that is, quit trying to "scrape" contents from the remote site and post a default message instead?
> 

There are two ways to do this. You can specify a timeout value as the
fifth arg to fsockopen. This is the timeout for the connection
itself. You can also use stream_set_timeout once the socket is open.

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				- Adam

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