Timeout

[Anon]

I have a whois-routine implemented in a PHP-script, and this search uses several whois.servers... Sometimes these are VERY slow and even down some times! In my script I have a function that handles thise queries... Is there a way to implement a timeout into this function so that f.ex.
after 10 seconds an error-message will be given???

[Anon]

For a good explanation of the functions below check:

http://www.php.net/manual/features.connection
-handling.php

Take a look at the following two functions from the php manual:

http://www.php.net/manual/function.set-time-limit.php

http://www.php.net/manual/function.connection-timeout.php

Robert