On Fri, April 13, 2007 12:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to find a simple way to test to see if a web site
> is up or not. I tried using
> $file = file_get_contents("http://www.example.com/page.html";);
> but when the site is down it takes too long and seems to time out
> terminating the script rather than returning a false I can test.
>
> Is there some way I can set a shorter limit? Or something?
The timeout for that is set in php.ini, and you can reset it right
before you do file_get_contents to something much more reasonable.
You might want to log the failure, and only hit a panic button if it
fails N times in X minutes or something, but it's quite do-able.
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