fsockopen - help please

[php4ever]

I used to use fsockopen() and it worked fine in my php script. Same script runs fine at home on my desktop in a WAMP environment but fails now at f2s. The problem apparently is that the timeout parameter to connect to the remote server is set to 15 at f2s whereas my default value at home is 60. Tried to change the default value at f2s using ini_set() and it failed apparently.

[php4ever]

I also thought maybe I could get around the fsockopen() issue by using curl. Wrote a curl script and it executed fine on my local server but as soon as I uploaded that script to f2s, it failed! Now, according to my understanding curl is enabled at f2s, so why would my script work on my local web server and fail at f2s?

[JeffG]

Don't know anything about fsockopen(), but I did spot this in the manual - don't know if it's relevant:

Originally Posted by PHP manual

Note: If you need to set a timeout for reading/writing data over the socket, use stream_set_timeout(), as the timeout parameter to fsockopen() only applies while connecting the socket.

Hmm. Re-reading your post, probably not. But anyway...

[php4ever]

JeffG,

Thanks for trying to help me out. But as you realized, the timeout that is the issue here is the connection timeout which has a default of 60 on my localhost on my desktop but f2s has given it a default of 15. Why? That's the mystery!

[brian_ex-f2s]

[QUOTE=php4ever;95878 The problem apparently is that the timeout parameter to connect to the remote server is set to 15 at f2s whereas my default value at home is 60. QUOTE]


It depends what/where the remote server is?

[php4ever]

Gotta say that overall what was initially a bit frustrating turned out to be a great learning experience. Thank you everyone for your input.