How to prevent blocking in php curl?

9 months ago

Benjamin Taylor

1 minute

In PHP, you can prevent cURL requests from blocking by setting the CURLOPT_TIMEOUT and CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT options.

The CURLOPT_TIMEOUT option is used to set the maximum execution time for a request, in seconds. If the request is not completed within the specified time, it will be interrupted. For example, setting it to 10 seconds:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);

The CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT option is used to set the connection timeout for a request, which is the maximum time allowed to establish a connection in seconds. If a connection cannot be established within the specified time, the request will be aborted. For example, setting it to 5 seconds.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);

You can adjust these two options to appropriate values based on actual needs to ensure that requests do not block for too long.