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[Hans Zaunere]

--- Chris Snyder <chris at psydeshow.org> wrote:
> Hi folks, does anyone know of a way to cause something like 
> fopen("http://example.com/") to time out after, say 5 seconds?

Best use fsockopen():

$fp = fsockopen('example.com',80,$errno,$errstr,5);

Which would try to connect to example.com on port 80 with a timeout of 5
seconds, writing any error code or string to $errno or $errstr, respectively.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

H