Handling Soap timeouts in PHP

Question

I\'m working on a project where I am verifying information from a user with a SOAP web service. I currently am taking care of errors assuming that I\'m receiving responses from

Answer 1

Looks like default_socket_timeout is not taken into account when making SOAP calls over HTTPS:

• Bug #48524 - Timeout setting is not considered on SOAP+HTTPS calls.

Bug open at the time of writing. As a comment on the blog post Robert Ludwick referenced in a deleted answer Timing Out PHP Soap Calls (21 Oct 2009; by Published by Robert F. Ludwick) points out, the workaround the post discusses (overriding SoapClient::__doRequest() with a curl request) works around this bug also.

• archived copy of

Another related bug is:

• Bug #41631 - default_socket_timeout does not work with SSL

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The code mentioned in the blog post has undergone some changes and can be found in it's latest form with support of HTTP authentication here on Github:

• SoapClientTimeout.class.php

In any case, the workaround shouldn't be needed any longer as this problem has been fixed in the PHP SOAPClient extension.