Help when Server is Down

[nikhil_narula]

Hi all,
In my website, I am making an http request to a different server. But sometimes what happens is that the server is down and it takes either too much time to return or it doesn’t return at all. So at the end the “connection timed out” error comes up and because of which my site also becomes slow.
Is there a way in PHP in which I can check that if the server is taking too much time, I can end the connection (say after 5 secs) on my own and continue the execution of my site? The idea is that my website should not become slow.
I tried using set_time_limit() function but it is not working. Any help would be highly appreciated.

[scrupul0us]

how are you making the request?

can we see some code?

[Weedpacket]

If you're using [man]fsockopen[/man], you can add a timeout on the socket connection; HTTP support in [man]fopen[/man] and [man]file_get_contents[/man] also allows adding a timeout to the context used by those functions.

A vague answer, but a vague question.

[nikhil_narula]

I am sorry my friend.. But i don think its a vague question.. I was facing problems so i posted my request.. Anyways thanks for your help.. i got the solution to the problem.. it can be done through "CURL" functions..

[Weedpacket]

nikhil_narula wrote:

I am sorry my friend.. But i don think its a vague question.. I was facing problems so i posted my request..

You don't say how you're making the http connection; there are many different methods, and the solution depends on which one you're using.