curl request page just loads

[The Little Guy]

I am using curl, it is getting urls from a page.

 

I am having a problem when it comes to pages that don't send a response back. How can I check to see if a page responds back or not?

 

$url = 'http://somesite.com/somepage.php';
mysql_free_result($sql);
$base = parse_url($url);
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);

// grab URL and pass it to the browser
$opt = curl_exec($ch);
// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);

[Handy PHP]

Well, the most basic method would be to check if $opt has a value...

If there isn't a response then no value would be set for $opt.

 

Or am I missing something?

 

Handy PHP

[The Little Guy]

I added both of these:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);

 

It seemed to fix the problem.

 

but you know whey you go to a page via web browser, and the page just sits there and loads forever... basically that is what was happening.