Getting URL content using Perl

[abhishekphp6]

I am using the following function to get the contents of a URL

 

function get_data($url)

{

$ch = curl_init();

$timeout = 5;

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,1000);

$data = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

return $data;

}

 

However the problem is that if the request times out, the function doesn't return an error.

 

If I call the same URL in browser, I can see error message ... but the function call to get_data returns nothing if the call times out.

[abhishekphp6]

Sorry I meant to say PHP not Perl.