server-response

Checking FTP status codes with a PHP script.

I have a script that checks responses from HTTP servers using the PEAR HTTP classes. However, I've recently found that the script fails on FTP servers (and probably anything that's not HTTP or HTTPS). I tried Google, but didn't see any scripts or code that returned the server status code from servers other than HTTP servers. How can I f...

What exactly is the 'Waiting for response' msg on Firebug's Net tab?

As sou can see from the screenshot most of the time spent is waiting for a server response (thats the purple coloured area). What exactly is that server response time? Is the server too slow? Is my connection too slow? Can't the server process much information at once (I've got many files there, I know I'll combine them to fewer)? What ...

My AJAX call is not returning anything but isn't failing either.

I have this html: <input type="text" id="text"/> <input type="button" id="submit" value="Submit" /> <div id="twitter_update_list"> </div> and this javascript: var xmlHttp; document.body.onclick = function(){ var username = document.getElementById('text').value; selectUser(username); } function selectUser(username){ ...