fopen for web page timing out, setting for timeout?

[jhilb]

I am using fopen to retrieve another web page. It works, most of the time.

Sometimes the web page I am trying to retrieve gets very large, so it takes a while for the site I am reaching out to, to generate the page, and then return it.

It would seem that fopen sometimes 'times out' when trying to retrieve the page. Seems to be around 12 seconds.

fread returns nothing. the fopen doesn't fail, it just doesn't return anything.

anything I can do to set the timeout on my fopen higher? or perhaps an easier way to retrieve another web page, where that web page may take siome time to render?

thanks
j

[maxxy]

Have you tried the same task with fsockopen()-function?

[PyroX]

I have no idea if you are posting data to this page or what, but if its just a simple read, file() works nicely.

I know its not what you asked for, please ignore if you need more than a simple HTTP GET.

$page = file('http://www.site.com/page.php');