From: Auke van Slooten on
Jochen Schultz wrote:
> Btw., when you use file_get_contets, is there a good way to tell the
> script to stop recieving the file after let's say 2 seconds - just in
> case the server is not reachable - to avoid using fsockopen?

http://nl.php.net/manual/en/context.http.php

specifically:

timeout float
Read timeout in seconds, specified by a float (e.g. 10.5).
By default the default_socket_timeout php.ini setting is used.

used with http://nl.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php

regards,
Auke van Slooten
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