Weird Error

[jordie]

Hello, I try to use the following code:

<!-- GOOGLE WORLD NEWS -->
<?php

$resultCount = '5';
$newsPage = 'http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=Deaf+deaf';
//$newsPage = "http://news.google.com/news/gnworldleftnav.html";
$open = fopen($newsPage, "r");
echo $open;
$read = fread($open, 900000);
fclose($open);
preg_match_all("|<a class=y href=\"(.*)\">(.*)</a><BR>\n<font size=-1>\n<b><font color=#6f6f6f>(.*)&nbsp;-</font> (.*)</b>\n<BR>|U",$read,$result);

echo "<table border=0 width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1>";

for ($i = 0; $i <= $resultCount; $i++) {	// loop through all the news results
	?>
	<!-- START EDIT -->
	<TR>
		<TD><font size=-1 face='times new roman'><B>&#149;</B></TD>
		<TD><font size=-1 face='times new roman'><a href="<?=$result[1][$i]?>" target="_blank"><?=$result[2][$i]?></a> - <?=$result[3][$i]?> (<?=$result[4][$i]?>)</TD>
	</TR>
	<!-- END EDIT -->
	<?
}
?>
</TABLE>
<!-- END GOOGLE WORLD NEWS -->

and I get this error:
Warning: fopen("http://news.google.com/news/?hl=en&q=Deaf+deaf","r") - No error in C:\apache\htdocs\google.php on line 23

(line is different as I took out the comments at the top of the script)

Now uncomment the other $newsPage and comment the current one and it will work fine.

I know that the Regex needs to be different for the different page, but at the moment that doesn't matter as it won't even open the page! :mad:

Anyone got any ideas? 😕

Edit: And incase anyone needs to know, it's been tried on PHP 4.0.2 and 4.0.5

[jordie]

I found the solution in the PHP manual for [man]fopen()[/man]. This is the comment that helped me:

thecompholio at msn dot com

I've found that some servers don't support HTTP/1.0 and will actually return a 403 error (forbidden). This is especially true with Google (my favorite search engine). So, in order to get around this limitation of the fopen command I wrote a routine to use HTTP/1.1 instead (i wrote a simple check for a 403 from fopen first, but this is the important piece)...
<START CODE>
$GrabURL = "/search";
$sockhandle = fsockopen("www.google.com", 80, &$errno, &$errstr);
if(!$sockhandle) {
print "server not available!";
} else {
$request = "GET $GrabURL HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$request .= "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)\r\n";
$request .= "Host: www.google.com\r\n";
$request .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
fputs($sockhandle, $request);
$line = fgets($sockhandle, 1024); //Request Method
$line = fgets($sockhandle, 1024); //Close Method
$line = fgets($sockhandle, 1024); //Server Type
$line = fgets($sockhandle, 1024); //Date
$line = fgets($sockhandle, 1024); //Transfer-Encoding
$line = fgets($sockhandle, 1024); //Content-Type
$line = fgets($sockhandle, 1024); //Cache-control
$line = fgets($sockhandle, 1024); //Set-Cookie
$line = fgets($sockhandle, 1024); //End Header "space"
$content = "";
while (!feof($sockhandle)) {
$line = fgets($sockhandle, 1024); //Packet length
$length = hexdec($line);
$content .= fread($sockhandle, $length); //Packet data
}
print $content;
}
fclose($sockhandle);
<END CODE>