File taking forever to open

[revjoe]

Well not forever, but longer than I can account for...

Here is a short snip:

$textfile = "http://fantasia.cs.msstate.edu/lcshdb/querySaver.cgi?subjectHeading=".$subject;
//echo $textfile;
$lines = file($textfile);

the variable subject has something like "Aeronautics".... any text really.

Timing these, I am seeing times of like 61 seconds to download this file and throw it into an array.

Accessing the link directly in the browser (even with the other app running), the page appears almost immediately.

Any suggestions other than cranking up the set_time_limit() ?

thanks

Joe

[dalecosp]

Hmm, first thought: the remote cgi program could have some sort of trouble identifying what it's talking to, and therefore it's holding things up when the script accesses it. Why? I don't know, and it's just a hunch. But often scripts do attempt to try and get an ID on the remote client (what browser is it, etc.).

For other thoughts, have you tried something like [man]file_get_contents[/man] to see if it's any faster?

</grasping at straws>