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dIone_24797
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Aug 14, 2013

Installing Curl Module in PHP

Hello, we need the sub-second timeout functionality in the libcurl module for PHP. The Libcurl(PHP) module is not on our F5 (11.4.0).

 

Does anyone have any experience installing this module?

 

We are using this script in an External Monitor to check the health of our Pools.

 

Thanks!

 

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  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Aug 15, 2013

    Hi,

    F5 wouldn't support you adding your own modules, but it should just work if you upload it and call it from your script.

    Else it looks like the curl executable already installed might support it if you set CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS as an environmental variable.

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6211282/why-would-curl-time-out-in-1000ms-when-i-have-set-up-timeout-upto-3000ms

    Check the version of your CURL and PHP installation. CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS added in cURL 7.16.2. Available since PHP 5.2.3. http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

     tmsh show sys version

Sys::Version
Main Package
  Product  BIG-IP
  Version  11.4.0
  Build    2384.0
  Edition  Final
  Date     Thu May 16 18:49:32 PDT 2013

 curl -V
curl 7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8y zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap ldaps http file https ftps
Features: IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz

    Aaron