Connection Speed Problems

Anon

Hello all,

I have a PHP page which calls does a read(URL) command. For eaxample

$StuffReturned = read("http://url/page.html")

The read seems to take anywhere between 4 and 12 seconds to return. The amount of text returned is under 1k.

If I make the same call using Perl the time to return the data is under a second.

I have checked the traffic at both ends and there is no CPU load or IP traffic.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Shawn

mdmann

To do what you seem to be trying to do, I
use the file() function, not the read()
function.

$StuffReturned = file("http://url/page.html")

Anon

Yes, sorry. I meant file(). Sometimes it's just better to cut & paste code than try to shorten things. :-)

A bit more information

PHP 4.0.5

Apache 1.3.20

Linux: 2.2.12-20

Anon

Well, I don't think I will be of much help.
I haven't experienced this problem. The
only thing I can think of is check to see
if the operation is executed more quickly
if you use the numeric IP address rather
than the name. Perhaps it's a DNS problem,
although I don't know why this would be a
problem under PHP and not Perl. I'll cont-
inue thinking about it, though.

Michael