fopen("http://otherhost") error,

Anon

I can use fopen to open a localhost's file.
But can not open other host file.

Who known about it?

Help me!

Anon

It works on my computer. The best way to learn is to test...test...test.

Hope this helps.

Tim

Anon

I am having a similar problem when using either file() or fopen() to try and open a remote page (eg: file("http://www.somewhere.com/index.html")). What happens is that if the command appears anywhere in the script, none of the script will execute and the browser will get back an empty page (netscape reports "Document contains no data"). Odd seeing as I would think at least SOME of the script (the parts before that command) should execute. As well there is plain HTML before that point and not even it is transmitted. Strangly enough it works fine on my test machine running NT and Apache, but not on the production server running Red Hat & Apache. Any help would be greatly appreciated - it's driving me nuts!

Thanks!
Travis

Anon

i'm having the same problem. fopen will not open files remotely. and in IE the page says "cannot find server" crap.

any idea whats going on?
my code:
$fp = fopen("http://www.phpbuilder.com/", "r");

$contents = fread ($fd, 1024);
echo $contents;

fclose($fp);

Anon

Yup. Same thing I've been doing. Still no idea. I've posted to this list (and others) with this problem a few times. No one answers, so I figure no one knows. My guess is that there is a compile option or module that we're missing, but there are no docs that I can find that tell how to fix it. <sigh> Stuck with leaving it on my development box I guess... it works there.

Anon

i got it to work with PHP4 when i compiled it with Apache. so i guess it doesn't worth when you install php as cgi.

an alternative i'm using right now is with lynx, eg:
lynx -source http://www.php.net > source_file

this is good cuz it handles redirects, missing /'s at the end, which fopen doesn't.
it is a bit slow tho. takes 3-4 seconds to dump to a file, but that's probably cuz its tcp/ip with lynx, i'm sure php's fopen/fread isn't much better, tho slightly.

.joel