Ftp timeout, shorter

[tripwater]

Hello,

I have a site that allows the user to enter in an IP address and a port within the company to ftp barcode file to send directly to a printer. However, if they put in an invalid IP I have this code die("Server could not be found."); This is all good but the browser looks for this IP address for way too long before it displays this message. Is there a way to shorten this time?

It would be nice for this message to come up as soon as the IP address could not be found instead of retrying(which is what I assume is what it is doing).

Any ideas or help with this would be great.

Thank you for any help.

[drew010]

what functions are you using to connect to the ftp server? the ftp_connect function has a 3rd paramater called timeout which will allow you to say how long to try to connect for before it quits trying.

[tripwater]

yes I am using ftp_connect(). Thanks I will look in to that.