What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Stop the solr server 2. Call Apache_Solr_Service#ping for that server

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Expected: Just returns false without any output. Actual: Outputs warning <b>Warning</b>: fsockopen() [<a href='function.fsockopen'>function.fsockopen</a>]: unable to connect to localhost:8983 in Apache/Solr/Service.php on line <b>552</b>

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? 2009-03-11

Please provide any additional information below. To fix the problem, just add @ for fsockopen at line 552. $fp = @fsockopen($this->_host, $this->_port, $errno, $errstr, $timeout);

Thanks for the library. It's wonderful.

The featured downloads are a packaging of r5. r6 however has a change that accomplishes the same - the use of fsockopen was replaced with file_get_contents for consistency with the rest of code and as part of that refactor I added the suppression operator.

My fault for not creating a new package, I was originally holding off for testing to make sure I didn't break functionality.

In the meantime, if you're not comfortable doing a checkout then I think you can get the same effect by suppressing the actual ping call:

@$serviceInstance->ping();