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[Phil Powell]

----- Original Message ----- 
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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