How to get fopen to timeout properly?

Question

I have the following snippet of php code

if($fp = fopen($url, 'r')) {
    stream_set_timeout($fp, 1); 
    stream_set_blocking($fp, 0);

}
$info = stream_get_meta_data($fp);

I'd like the request to timeout after 1 second. If I put a sleep(20) in my $url that I'm reading, it just waits the whole 20 seconds and never times out. Is there a better way to do timeouts with fopen?

If I use ini_set('default_socket_timeout',2) above that code it times out properly but $info then becomes null so ideally I'd like to use the stream functions.

Answer 1

You can use stream_context_create() and the http context option timeout. But fopen() will still return false if a timeout occurs, and stream_get_meta_data() won't work.

$url = 'http://...';
$context = stream_context_create( array(
  'http'=>array(
    'timeout' => 2.0
  )
));
$fp = fopen($url, 'r', false, $context);
if ( !$fp ) {
  echo '!fopen';
}
else {
  $info = stream_get_meta_data($fp);
  var_dump($info);
}