Would setting the time out to something small work?

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:09:37 -0400, Kirk Hedden
<khedden_at_treefrogcreations.com> wrote:
> What about using an exec() call to kick off a curl background process? It
> would only be an option on unix systems, I suppose.
>
> Kirk
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> At 08:33 AM 10/4/2004, you wrote:
> >On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Willy Jaramillo wrote:
> >
> >>I was wondering if there is a way to do an asynchronous post using cURL.
> >
> >1. cURL is the name of the project that develops curl and libcurl.
> >
> >2. curl is the name of the command line tool.
> >
> >3. PHP/CURL is the name (I use) of the PHP binding for libcurl until a better
> > pop up.
> >
> >I assume you're talking about (3) here.
> >
> >>I don't want my script to wait for something to return. In other words,
> >>once it reaches the curl_exec($ch) line, I want my code to continue
> >>running without waiting for something to be returned.
> >
> >That would be possible if PHP allowed you to start a background
> >process/thread or similar. But I don't think it does.
> >
> >--
> > Daniel Stenberg -- http://curl.haxx.se -- http://daniel.haxx.se
> > Dedicated custom curl help for hire: http://haxx.se/curl.html
> >
>
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Received on 2004-10-04