PHP Curl - If no response within a certain time, proceed [duplicate]

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I have a network system that checks other sites and displays results. However some of those sites can be slow to respond.

I'd like Curl to wait only a small time before saying "forget this site!" and moving onto the next.

How do you make curl abort an attempt after so much "idle" time?

The reason I did not post any code is because I have no idea where to even start on this feature! Be kind. :D

Samuel Cook · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-21 20:12:30Z

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You have two separate options for the timeout:

CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT
Time (in seconds) spent connecting (set to 0 for infinite wait time)

CURLOPT_TIMEOUT
Time (in seconds) spent while curl is executing (set to 0 for inifinite wait time)

answered May 21, 2013 at 20:12

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:28:56Z

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Look into CURLOPT_TIMEOUT and CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT in the manual. Also, search Stack Overflow before posting - Setting Curl's Timeout in PHP

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Orangeman555 Over a year ago

Half the problem is not knowing the terminology to search for. I searched "abort" and such..."timeout" would have brought me right there but I didn't think of such terminology. In short I DID just that.

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