Does WGET timeout

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I m running a PHP script via cron using Wget  with the following command   wget -O - -q -t 1 http   www example com cron run   The script will take a maximum of 5-6 minutes to do its processing  Will WGet wait for it and give it all the time it needs  or will it time out

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The default timeout is 900 second  You can specify different timeout   -T seconds --timeout seconds   The default is to retry 20 times  You can specify different tries   -t number --tries number   link  wget man document

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Prior to version 1 14  wget timeout arguments were not adhered to if downloading over https due to a bug

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Since in your question you said it s a PHP script  maybe the best solution could be to simply add in your script   ignore user abort TRUE     In this way even if wget terminates  the PHP script goes on being processed at least until it does not exceeds max execution time limit  ini directive  30 seconds by default    As per wget anyay you should not change its timeout  according to the UNIX manual the default wget timeout is 900 seconds  15 minutes   whis is much larger that the 5-6 minutes you need

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According to the man page of wget  there are a couple of options related to timeouts -- and there is a default read timeout of 900s -- so I say that  yes  it could timeout    Here are the options in question    -T seconds --timeout seconds      Set the network timeout to seconds   seconds   This is equivalent to   specifying --dns-timeout    --connect-timeout  and   --read-timeout  all at the same   time     And for those three options    --dns-timeout seconds      Set the DNS lookup timeout to seconds   seconds   DNS lookups that don t   complete within the specified time   will fail  By default  there is no   timeout on DNS lookups  other than   that implemented by system libraries    --connect-timeout seconds      Set the connect timeout to seconds   seconds  TCP connections that take   longer to establish will be aborted    By default  there is no connect   timeout  other than that implemented   by system libraries    --read-timeout seconds      Set the read  and write  timeout to   seconds seconds  The  time  of   this timeout refers to idle time  if    at any point in the download  no data   is received for more than the   specified number of seconds  reading   fails and the download is restarted    This option does not directly   affect the duration of the entire   download     I suppose using something like   wget -O - -q -t 1 --timeout 600 http   www example com cron run   should make sure there is no timeout before longer than the duration of your script    Yeah  that s probably the most brutal solution possible

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