On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 lobos_at_webvida.com wrote:

> Now sometimes the page loads fast (1-2 seconds) and other times it loads
> slow (8-10 seconds)
>
> should I be using cURL or should I use fread or fopen?

curl generally works very fast. When not, it is usually something in your
environment that is the cause.

I would suggest that you ethereal the network when curl operates, as then you
can detect what packages that take a long time. I would suspect the name
resolving.

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