file_get_contents/curl blocks other clients

Question

I use file_get_contents/curl to get access for one API at the another server from my php script. This API isn't fast and can take up to 10 seconds to respond.

When I try to open 2 pages on my web site at the same time, which uses this API, they loaded one by one, i.e. I need to wait 1st to be loaded before server will start to server request for 2nd page.

I use Apache2 and php under linux. How I can avoid such behaviour, I don't want to block other clients while one of them access this API. Need help!

Thanks.

no session can be open twice at the same time. Use `session_write_close();` when you want to free the session for another process or thread. — bwoebi, Oct 14 '13 at 08:15
I just guessed it…^^ That's the usual problem. And yeah, that one is hard to google… — bwoebi, Oct 14 '13 at 08:24
More info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3506574/how-do-i-configure-apache2-to-allow-multiple-simultaneous-connections-from-same — MichaelG, Jan 19 '22 at 17:54

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 14 '13 at 08:18

0

Yes.

There is this PHP library: http://code.google.com/p/multirequest/ (it's a multithreaded CURL lib).

As another solution, you could write a script that does that in a language that supports threading, like Ruby or Python. Then, just call the script with PHP. Seems rather simple.

answered Oct 14 '13 at 08:18

Satyam Saxena

581
2
10

bwoebi described the right solution. This seems to be so hard to find on google and documentation. – let4be Oct 14 '13 at 08:23
additionally, that doesn't use multiple threads _at all_, it uses non-blocking i/o ... – Joe Watkins Oct 21 '13 at 00:28

file_get_contents/curl blocks other clients

1 Answers1