Readfile ERROR - help please

[s0me0ne]

I'm trying to link to a adbanner that is in Perl and sometimes it reads it other times it gives the following error:

Warning: readfile(): php_hostconnect: connect failed in /sites/whatever.com/mysite/header.inc on line 15

Warning: readfile([url]http://www.whatever.com/cgi-bin/add-bannerad.pl[/url]): failed to open stream: Network is unreachable in /sites/whatever.com/mysite/header.inc on line 15

The file it should read is
http://www.whatever.com/cgi-bin/add-bannerad.pl

The php code I'm using is:

<?php readfile("http://www.whatever.com/cgi-bin/add-bannerad.pl"); ?>

[s0me0ne]

guess no one knows? 😕 🙁

[s0me0ne]

I may just use SHTML instead

I cant still figure this out unless it has to do with the file being locked when its reading it. Any ideas? 😕

[drew010]

judging by the error, if whatever.com where you want to read the perl file is on another server, it may just be timing out on occasion and giving that error, otherwise im not sure why. if its on the same server, it may have to do with file locking, try using fopen so it will wait til its unlocked when on the same system.