Any idea why would this timeout?

Discussion in 'PHP' started by amorph, Jun 28, 2007.

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    function get_pageSource ( $url )
	{
		$handle = fopen($url ,'r');
		$scraped = '';
	
		if ($handle) 
		{
			while (!feof($handle)) 
			{
				$buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
				$scraped .= $buffer;
			}
			fclose($handle);
		}
		
		return $scraped;
	}

echo get_pageSource ('http://digg.com/programming');
    PHP:
    it timeouts only on digg.com, they must have a restriction or something...maybe a better function to trick it?
     
    amorph, Jun 28, 2007 IP
  2. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    Try using curl which gives you control over the user agent and other identifying features.

    Or try taking the while off and make it for($i = 0; $i < $max; $i++) and make $max a small number like 10 and see if it's the connection to digg that is the problem - or what it returns.
     
    sarahk, Jun 28, 2007 IP
  3. amorph

    amorph Peon

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    Oh well...thanks sarah. I was hoping for something better but I'll have to enable curl on my localhost now and use it. Thanks
     
    amorph, Jun 28, 2007 IP