On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Petreanu Sebastian wrote:

> What is the importance of the CURLOPT_TIMEOUT option?

The underlying libcurl option is documented here:

http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTTIMEOUT

> I use it into my PHP script but it doesn't have any influence.

Then something is severly wrong.

> Sometimes the script blocks on curl_exec function and remain in that state.
> What should I do?

That sounds like a bug. Do you run the latest PHP, PHP/CURL and libcurl?

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