Any way to gracefully enforce a timeout limit when loading a slow external file via javascript?

Question

I\'m using javascript to include some content served up from a php file on another server. However, this other service can sometimes get flaky and either take a long time t

Answer 1

The only way I can think of doing this is to create a proxy on another (PHP-enabled) server which will fetch the data for you, but will stop when a certain timeout limit has been reached (and it can just return an empty result).