On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 23:24, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 23:11, Richard Lynch wrote: > >> On Mon, April 10, 2006 9:59 pm, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >>> Richard Lynch wrote: > >>>> It would be REALLY NIFTY if fopen and friends which understand all > >>>> those protocols of HTTP FTP HTTPS and so on, allowed one to set a > >>>> timeout for URLs, but they don't and nobody with the skills to > >>>> change > >>>> that (not me) seems even mildly interested. :-( :-( :-( > >>> Because it is already there and has been since Sept.23 2002 when it > >>> was > >>> added. > >> I've added a Note to 'fopen' so maybe others won't completely miss > >> this feature and look as foolish as I do right now. :-) > > > > If it's anything like the helpful note I added about using copy( source, > > dest ) where dest accidentally points to source (due to linking), you'll > > get a nice retarded email like the following: > > You could volunteer to help maintain the user notes. It it thankless > and tedious work to keep up with the flood of user notes being > submitted. I'll keep that in mind for the future when I have more free time (2 kids under 3 is good for keeping me occupied beyond work atm :). > A huge percentage of them being either spam, product pitches > or really dumb questions. The fact that occasionally a useful note gets > deleted by mistake doesn't surprise me. Point taken, just sort of feels like slap in the face after you go to the effort to write a useful note :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php