Limit connecting time with Guzzle HTTP PHP client

Question

I'm using Guzzle to open a list of url-s and get the headers. Some of the urls are taking too long to respond and can't be openned and i want to ignore them. It takes me up to 20+ seconds before Guzzle throws an exception and i want to change this and limit the time for connecting to 2 sec. I have this code but it still takes much longer:

<?php
include 'vendor/autoload.php';

$start = new \DateTime("now");

$start = $start->format("d.m.Y H:i:s");
echo $start."\n";
$client = new Guzzle\Http\Client();

Guzzle\Http\StaticClient::mount();

try {
    $request = $client->get('http://takestoolongexample', [], ['connect_timeout' => 2, 'timeout' => 3, 'debug' => true]);
    $response = $request->send();

    var_dump($response->getStatusCode());
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo "\n".$e->getMessage()."\n";
}

$end = new \DateTime("now");

$end = $end->format("d.m.Y H:i:s");

echo "\n".$end."\n";
?>

Here's an example result. As you can see, it took 13 seconds.

$ php test.php
30.12.2013 22:00:07
* getaddrinfo(3) failed for takestoolongexample:80
* Couldn't resolve host 'takestoolongexample'
* Closing connection 0

[curl] 6: Couldn't resolve host 'http://takestoolongexample' http://takestoolongexample

30.12.2013 22:00:20

(http://takestoolongexample was a real url, changed it here)

Answer 1

Here's the updated solution to this problem for Guzzle version (Guzzle 4).

$request = $client->get(sprintf("%s/noisesize.api", $this->noiseConfig->url), [
    'timeout' => 5, // Response timeout
    'connect_timeout' => 5, // Connection timeout
]);

Throws Guzzle\Http\Exception\RequestException

Documentation for the latest version is here: Guzzle request options - connect_timeout, timeout.

Answer 2

Small precision, you also can define timeouts on Client constructor

$client = new Guzzle\Http\Client('', array(
    'request.options' => array (
        'timeout' => 6,
        'connect_timeout' => 6 
    ) 
));

It'll be valid for all requests made from this Client