Hi, Some of our scripts that generate customer-facing pages, need a connection to a database. The problems is that the database is in Norway and - allthough we have a VPN setup - the connection isn't always available. In case the connection cannot be made, we can redirect the customer to a nice error page and ask them to try again later. That's not too hard. The issue is that it takes really really long before ocilogon returns if the connection cannot be established. Is it possible to set a timeout on ocilogon (like you can with eg fsockopen)? Rgds, Jos -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php