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				<title>No Response/Timeout</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ When I try to convert an RSS feed to a geoRSS the service never responds.  Take the following URL for example -  http://ws.geonames.org/rssToGeoRSS?feedUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fsports.yahoo.com%2Ftop%2Frss.xml

Is it something I'm doing or is the service experiencing difficulties?
Thank you.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:15:17]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ jandtjolly]]></author>
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				<title>Re:No Response/Timeout</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ The server was having some performance and availability problems due to too much load.

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:53:12]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ marc]]></author>
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				<title>Re:No Response/Timeout</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I need some help dealing with the server when it is under high demand.

The failure created by a geonames timeout is somewhat unfriendly.  The web page just hangs, and doesn't load, until the apache server times out.

I am using PHP to call the geonames webservice in the following fashion:

$url = 'http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceName?lat=' . $lat . '&lng=' . $long . '&style=FULL';

$geonames_xml = simplexml_load_file($url) ;

Is there an approach someone could suggest so that I can fail more gracefully.  When geonames doesn't respond, sometimes my apache server crashes!

Thanks,

John
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:02:13]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ johns]]></author>
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