Home » HTTP » HTTP_Request2 » Bug #5022

[2005-08-07 19:07 UTC] misc at keilonat dot de

Description:
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Because HTTP_Request::sendRequest() does not only send the request as the name would suggest, but also fetches the data immediately, it is not possible to use this class nor classes based on this (e.g. HTTP_Client) to perform non-blocking (parallel) requests which is very pity.

To perform non-blocking requests, one would have to do something like this:

<?php
$urls = array(
'http://pear.php.net',
'http://php.net',
'http://google.de'
);

// only open socket and send request,
// no fetching of data or headers!
foreach($urls as $url) {
$requests[$url] =& new HTTP_Request($url);
$requests[$url]->sendRequest();
}

// retrieval of data
foreach($urls as $url) {
$data = $requests[$url]->fetchData();
}
?>

If the data is fetched immediately after the request, the effect of socket_set_blocking($fp, 0) is zilch.