XML and fopen()

AndyY

As part of an XML implementation I am required to open a feed that has a querystring appended to it. For example

http://www.test.com/test.xml?keyword=test

However the fopen command does not seem to like opening such a file. If the '?keyword=test' part is removed though it opens the file fine.

Does anybody have any idea how to get around this problem?

Weedpacket

Try using [man]fsockopen[/man] instead, and do the http protocol yourself.

That's just a suggestion: I didn't have any problem fopening http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&threadid=10218871

AndyY

Unfortunately i've tried that and i'm getting the same result, I also just tried opening this page

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&threadid=10218871

And it gave me this error message

Warning: stat failed for http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&threadid=10218871 (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/xmlfeed/xmltest.php on line 18

Is there some setting in php.ini or somewhere else that could be causing this? i've just recompiled the latest version of PHP but it's made no difference to this.

Now i'm totally stumped 🙁

Weedpacket

[man]stat[/man] failed?

Manual
stat() cannot be used on remote files.

It's amazing how much one can learn just from reading error messages.

AndyY

I haven't used the stat() command, thats the error message generated by the fopen() command.