Is it possible to make asynchronous connections with Zend_Http?

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Is it possible to make asynchronous connections with Zend_Http? How?

Thanks for help.

Do you want only reload something over ajax or do you want a permanent connection to a server? — René Höhle, Mar 17 '11 at 16:04
I need async connections for my CLI php application. Now, I use MultiRequest class (http://code.google.com/p/multirequest/). But I thought that is something similar in Zend Framework. — Stil, Mar 17 '11 at 16:25

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 16 '11 at 23:35

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No. Zend_Http does neither support parallel requests (look into curl_multi for that) nor asynchronous requests or response polling. All adapters are ->read right after the request ->write.

answered Mar 16 '11 at 23:35

mario

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Yes, Without getting exotic (and possibly daft), curl_multi is about the only easy way to this. There some old (but still correct) tutorials about the basics of how to do this. http://www.paul-norman.co.uk/2009/06/asynchronous-curl-requests/ – James Butler Mar 17 '11 at 00:09
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@JamesButler: There is also a newfangled way to do it: http://php.net/httprequestpool - And it would be (here comes a overly hypothetical assumption) possible to build something yourself using a fsockopen pool. But in PHP it's hard to make it either efficient or really asynchronous. – mario Mar 17 '11 at 00:18
Hadn't noticed that. I'm guessing its a wrapper/abstraction over curl. Everyday is a school day! – James Butler Mar 17 '11 at 10:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 24 '16 at 15:36

Yes it is possible, though an not a natural solution, but ...

try {
    $result = $client->request(Zend_Http_Client::GET);
} catch (Exception $ex) {
    //no hadle
}

and provide timeout value of 1

$client = new Zend_Http_Client("http://127.0.0.1:80......."", array(
    'timeout'      => 1
));

Is it possible to make asynchronous connections with Zend_Http?

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