fread problem when using external urls

Anon

the following code works perfectly:

<?php
$url = "http://www.website.com/";
$file = fopen($url, "r");
$page = fread($file, 10240);
fclose($file);
echo $page;
?>

but if i change the $url variable to http://www.website.com (without the trailing / ) or http://www.website.com?query=hello
i get the following errors:

Warning: fopen("http://www.website.com","r") - Success in /home/dreamtide/www/oneplan/tools/test.php on line 3

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /home/www/tools/test.php on line 4

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /home/www/tools/test.php on line 5

i need to load the external url into a variable so that i can ereg a user-submitted field but it seems to be getting stuck just on the fread command at this stage

any help appreciated

BoB.

sfullman

This may not answer your question but it is something worth knowing nevertheless (I'm passing on what I have been told):

When I type in www.site.com/folder for example, it's slightly slower than if I type in www.site.com/folder/, because the nameserver will first try to see whether there is a filed called "folder" before it will look for a FOLDER called folder and look into the contents.

PHP may follow this same protocol and get stumped. Anyway, should be easy enough to evaluate the string and add a / if necessary.

Sam Fullman

Anon

hi
thanks for that
but i dont think the trailing slash is the problem
as soon as a add a ? to start a query string on a url, it causes the same error, even with the trailing slash in place
now apparently what is am doing is possible and i have seen a working example which leads to believe that it has something to do with the setup of php on the server

any help appreciated

BoB.