fopen not working?

[Anon]

hello-
I'm trying to use the fopen() command to open the url below and just read it
into another $var. However, I'm having some problems.... the warning i get
is below along with the url in the warning. Anyone know what's going on
here??

Thanks,
jay

/ code i'm using: /
$fp = fopen("http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Music%20business%20news&o=xml", "r");
$length = filesize($fp);
$content = fread($fp,$length);
fclose($fp);
echo $content;

/ warnings i'm getting /
Warning: php_hostconnect: connect failed
Warning:
fopen("http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Music%20business%20news&o=xml"
,"r") - Bad file descriptor

[Anon]

Check out the documentation:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php

Take a look at the last user entered comment:

"If $filename is an URL, you can't use the filesize() function. just put a constant value, and the fread() function will work"

I ran the following:

<?php

$fp = fopen("http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Music%20business%20news&o=xml", "r");

$content = fread($fp,1000000);
fclose($fp);
echo $content;

?>

...and it worked just fine.

Jay wrote:

hello-
I'm trying to use the fopen() command to open the url below and just read it
into another $var. However, I'm having some problems.... the warning i get
is below along with the url in the warning. Anyone know what's going on
here??

Thanks,
jay

/ code i'm using: /
$fp = fopen("http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Music%20business%20news&o=xml", "r");
$length = filesize($fp);
$content = fread($fp,$length);
fclose($fp);
echo $content;

/ warnings i'm getting /
Warning: php_hostconnect: connect failed
Warning:
fopen("http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Music%20business%20news&o=xml"
,"r") - Bad file descriptor

[Anon]

hmmm.. well do you think it could be the firewall i'm behing? it doesn't seem to me that would be the case sine i can open the url in a browser but i could be wrong... hmmm

thanks,
jay

[Anon]

I am a bit confused. Did the solution in my previous post not work for you?

Jay wrote:

hmmm.. well do you think it could be the firewall i'm behing? it doesn't seem to me that would be the case sine i can open the url in a browser but i could be wrong... hmmm

thanks,
jay

[Anon]

the solution you suggested didn't work.. i still get the following errors:

Warning: php_hostconnect: connect failed in d:\files\htdocs\lbjs\new_websites\krox\xml.php on line 23

Warning: fopen("http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Music%20business%20news&o=xml","r") - Bad file descriptor in d:\files\htdocs\lbjs\new_websites\krox\xml.php on line 23

so i'm thinking that it might have something to do with the firewall here at work.. but why would it do that when i can pull it up in the browser just fine?