Maximum execution time using cURL

Question

I'm getting the error Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded

which is odd because I have the timeout set to 0.

    function curl(){

        $this->options = Array(
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,   
        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => FALSE, 
        CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 0, 
        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0, 
        CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 20, 
        CURLOPT_USERAGENT => random_user_agent(), 
        CURLOPT_URL => $this->url, 
      );

       $this->ch = curl_init(); //Initalising curl;
     curl_setopt_array($this->ch, $this->options); 
     $this->data = curl_exec($this->ch); // Executing cURL;
     curl_close($this->ch);


     return $this->data;
     }  

Does anyone have an idea what the problem may be?

Many thanks in advance for any responses.

Answer 1

Specifying 0 basically eliminates the timeout of the cUrl request.

However, the PHP script itself is not allowed to run for more than 30 seconds (by default). So if the request takes more than 30 seconds, the PHP script itself will be terminated, resulting in the message you get, regardless whether it was cUrl or just another piece of code that caused the script to take that long.