[PHP-DOC] Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #6266: fgets() never timeout used in a HTTPconnection From: Joey Smith (joey <email protected>)
Date: 08/21/00

Hmm...this function does not appear in the documentation. Let's get it
in there and add links on both fopen() and fgets(), what does everyone
think?

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Andrei Zmievski wrote the following to Ron Chmara :

> On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Ron Chmara wrote:
> >
> >
> > joel.jacobson <email protected> wrote:
> > > The fgets function is the problem. There is no way to speficy a timeout
> > > limit for this function.
> >
> > FWIW: Both fopen and fgets have errata notes requesting/begging/looking
> > for ways to work around the lack of a timeout.
>
> Umm, socket_set_timeout() has been there for a while.
>
> -Andrei
>
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