How to handle possibility of blocking curl requests about matomo-php-tracker HOT 2 CLOSED

After some more testing I'm not sure how to handle this because curl behaves not the way I want it to. On some systems CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL => 1 is needed to get the _MS stuff to work. More info about the can be found here. To have really short timeouts, the CURLOPT_TIMEOUT should be changed to CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, because we still want to get the request send to piwik. I still have problems with timeouts < 100ms and I don't understand why.
ATM I think it's better to track actions in the frontend only. I could write data from the backend in the DOM and process it with some js-code in the frontend.
After all I would like to hear how you handle this in your projects.

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@nonsenz you can customise the requestTimeout attribute and set it to 1 second. If that's not good enough, then don't use the doTrack* methods (which will use CURL or Fopen streams), and instead fetch the URL with calling getUrl* method and call yourself using your favorite flavor).

There's also the possibility to bulk requests using enableBulkTracking() which can sometimes be useful

Enables the bulk request feature. When used, each tracking action is stored until the doBulkTrack method is called. This method will send all tracking data at once.

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