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

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:04:51 +0200, Ewoud Dronkert
<firstname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted:

>MikeSoja wrote:

>>On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:23:31 +0200, Ewoud Dronkert
>><firstname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted:

>>>MikeSoja wrote:

>>>> $fp = fopen("http://www.weather.gov/data/current_obs/KPKB.xml","r";);

>>>> I suspected something changed with my web provider

>>>Maybe weather.gov is blocking/putting a brake on their ip no.

>> 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.

Ah, so. My mistake. I assigned the possessive to the closest noun,
not the correct one.

I suppose there's no way to find out, outside of badgering the
respective parties.

>> 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.

As it is, the delay affects only the first page access every hour,
so it's just a niggling problem, and something apparently beyond the
scope of my script.

Mike Soja

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