A script that takes the number of seconds it must wait to render a simple text message. Useful for testing web server timeout configurations.

timeout.php

<?php
 
$seconds = 60 * 2; // nginx default is 60 seconds
 
set_time_limit (60*60*24); // PHP keeps waiting for a whole day!
 
if (array_key_exists('s', $_REQUEST)) {
  $seconds = intval($_REQUEST['s']);
}
 
sleep($seconds);

header("Content-Type: text/plain");
 
echo "This page took $seconds second(s) to print this message!\n";
 
?>