fsockopen errors

[mrdance]

Sometimes the fsockopen fails to open a port. I am using this line;

$portcheck80=fsockopen($ip, 80, &$errornumber, &$errordescription, 60);
fclose($portcheck80);
if (!$errordescription80)
{ $port80="BAD"; } else { $port80="OK"; }

Sometimes it returns this error;

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in d:\web\serverwatch\serverwatch.php on line 23

This error cause the program to stop, how do I prevent it from doing that? All other things to do later in the script are not executed. I just want it to store OK or BAD.

Thankful for help / Henrik

[babak]

Hi

You better not touch it. The execution time has nothing to do with the problem that you encounter.

The port you try to open hangs, and occupies the process for longer than 60 seconds. You better do this:

$response = fgets($portcheck80,128);

and study what you get from your connetion. Probably you receive somethimg like, Authorization required. But you better parse what ever message you receive to be in control of the exceptions and problems.

//babak

[terje-s]

I do not have very much experience with fsockopen(), hardly ever used it. Babaks reply is probably the best solution, but it might be the last parameter for fsockopen(), the timeout parameter. Since your php has max execution time of 60 seconds, and the timeout is 60 seconds. Try setting the timeout to a lower number

[[deleted]]

Like Terje says, your connection timeout is too long.
It can wait for up to 60 seconds before it decides that the site is not responding. That is also the maximum time the PHP script is allowed to run.
You can put the timeout of the socket way shorter
than 60 seconds, 5-10 seconds is enough.
(do you ever wait for 60 seconds for a website to begin sending you a page)