timeout for a function call?

[bentman]

Hi,
Any thoughts on how one could timeout a function? I'm getting the contents of a url, and sometimes it will just hang forever and ever. If I use file(), there is no way to limit it, and if open a socket connection (which does have timeout parm), it seems to really increase the time it takes to run overall.

So what i'm hoping to do is put the file() command in a function and set a timeout for the function it's in.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts,
🙂Ben

[Anon]

Any luck with your URL timeout problem? I've been looking for the solution for quite some time.

thanks,
jeff

[bentman]

no luck as yet.

sorry dude.

-b

[lensta]

I am having exactly the same problem. Did you manage to find a solution? I am currently getting the file one character at a time, which seems the most stable, but still hangs from time to time.

Let me know if you managed to find an answer to this.

Thanks,

Len