I am trying to make a script to download part of a file. Just do a test with CURL and fread, I understand that CURL is slower during the threading process than fread. What for? How to speed up curl for a streaming file? I do not like to use fread, fopen, because I need a limited time in the streaming process.
Here is my sample code.
$start = microtime(true);
$f = fopen('http://news.softpedia.com/images/news2/Debian-Turns-15-2.jpeg','r');
$response = fread($f, 3); echo $response.'<br>';
$response = fread($f, 3); echo $response.'<br>';
$response = fread($f, 3); echo $response.'<br>';
$response = fread($f, 3); echo $response.'<br>';
$response = fread($f, 3); echo $response.'<br>';
$stop = round(microtime(true) - $start, 5);
echo "{$stop}s";
exit();
Fread / Fopen It only takes 1.1 s
$start = microtime(true);
$curl = curl_init('http://news.softpedia.com/images/news2/Debian-Turns-15-2.jpeg');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RANGE, "0-2");
$response = curl_exec($curl);echo $response.'<br>';
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RANGE, "3-5");
$response = curl_exec($curl);echo $response.'<br>';
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RANGE, "6-8");
$response = curl_exec($curl);echo $response.'<br>';
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RANGE, "9-11");
$response = curl_exec($curl);echo $response.'<br>';
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RANGE, "12-14");
$response = curl_exec($curl);echo $response.'<br>';
curl_close($curl);
$stop = round(microtime(true) - $start, 5);
echo "{$stop}s";
exit();
the curl took about 2.5 s. if I take another step to upload more of the file. curl will take longer.
Why is twisting slower? and what solution is this?