# cURL waiting/timeout
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/curl-waiting-timeout/260640
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [May 18, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/curl-waiting-timeout/260640 "2008-05-18T00:23:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@kdd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kdd)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/curl-waiting-timeout/260640/1 "2008-05-18T00:23:08Z")
I have cURL working, it retrieves data from Google and what not…
I’m still learning this, so I’m a bit confused about waiting on response and timeout.
Let’s say I’ve some php code, then cURL execute, and then some php code.
So,
```php
php code .... (1)
cURL execute
php code .... (2)
```
Will php code (2) wait until cURL execution is done and I have gotten a response from Google? OR will the php keep executing php code (2)? If php will keep executing php code (2), what can I do to stop it until I have gotten response from the cURL execute? Thanks! 🙂
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### Author:  [@kdd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kdd)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/curl-waiting-timeout/260640/2 "2008-05-18T00:30:09Z")
I just tried it with non-existent website, and it seemed to wait a long time until giving up, so does this mean it’ll always wait for data?
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### Author:  [@kitsunegari](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kitsunegari)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/curl-waiting-timeout/260640/3 "2008-05-18T19:18:56Z")
1. check if curl extension is activated on your server
2. check if the site you are parsing accepts curl requests (some sites can block some localhost/proxys/other domains incoming requests)
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### Author:  [@Esherido](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Esherido)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/curl-waiting-timeout/260640/4 "2008-05-19T18:31:16Z")
I’m pretty sure it will wait until the cURL request is complete before continuing. The only way to get around this (That I know of.) would be to set up a separate thread for the cURL process. And I’m not even sure if PHP can do that.
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### Author:  [@kdd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kdd)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2008, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/curl-waiting-timeout/260640/5 "2008-05-20T04:54:43Z")
It waits! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Esherido](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Esherido)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/curl-waiting-timeout/260640/6 "2008-05-20T17:50:04Z")
Yay! I guess. 😑