On Fri, April 13, 2007 12:16 am, ccspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxx 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. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php