Re: fopen() taking ten seconds or more to come back...

>> The delay only occurs when fopen() runs from the web site.
>
>I understood, that's why I suggested that weather.gov might be blocking
>*their* ip address.
>
>> And I only read from weather.gov once an hour, keeping a local copy
>> of the file between times, so I'm not hitting them up too often.
>
>..but probably not then.

Unless this hosted site isn't the *only* site hitting weather.gov from
that IP address. You have to worry about what your neighbors on the
same box are doing.

Also, it could be that the net is just saturated for that machine's
connection to the outside world.

Gordon L. Burditt

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