On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 07:24:03 -0700 (PDT), Mag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> $url=file_get_contents("http://www.yahoo.com/";);
>
> The thing is, it takes quite some time (2-5 secs)
> before the contents are in my program (I am using my
> local webserver on my desktop for testing...not a
> webserver)
>
> My questions are for you more experienced guys...
> is there anyway to 'quicken' the process or is this
> normal?
> do you recommend anything other than
> file_get_contents() ?
> and lastly, is this a resource intensive hog?
The 2-5 seconds is most likely a DNS lookup. You can speed it up by
using a local caching DNS server or the IP address, or possibly a DNS
server under less load.
file_get_contents() is fairly new and and therefore not very backwards
compatible with older PHP installs as a result. It's handy and all,
but I found our production servers were running a PHP too old to use
it one day last week when I tried.
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