fopen() - error 0 ???

[Anon]

Hi, I'm using fopen to open external web pages like this:

$inputURL = "http://somewhereElse.com/";
$fp = fopen($inputURL, "r");
$content = fread($fp, 1000000);
fclose($fp);

For some web sites (like http://www.yahoo.com), it works fine, but for others (like http://mrshowbiz.com/) it's tempermental. Running it from one server, it succeeds, BUT I tried it on another server and kept getting:

Warning: fopen("http://www.mrshowbiz.com/","r") - Error 0 in /n/fs/public_html/loadURL3.php on line 33

What is Error 0 ?!??!

[Anon]

not a solution, I'm afraid... did you ever find out what was happening? I have a similar problem and can't find anything about Error 0 either...

[Anon]

nope. never got an answer to that question. lemme know if you have any luck with it.

[sablos]

it seems to me like you're not specifying the particular file. have you tried "http://www.mrshowbiz.com/index.html" or whatever the default filename is?

Also, if your script is about loading URLs, why do you need to use the fopen() function anyway? unless you want store everything on that web page to a variable or something...

By the way, I've never encountered the Error 0 thing...