can fopen or fread be blocked?

nuts

I have 2 scripts

The first one works fine with google.com (gets the text anyway) but does not grab anything from switchboard.com.

$GrabURL = "http://www.DOMAIN.com";  //-  Complete URL Of The Page You're Grabbing From!
$GrabStart = "<html>";  //- HTML Code To Start Grab. Must Be A Unique Bit Of Code!
$GrabEnd = "</html>";  //- HTML Code To End Grab. Must Be A Unique Bit Of Code!

$OpenFile = fopen("$GrabURL", "r"); //- DO NOT CHANGE
$RetrieveFile = fread($OpenFile, 200000);  //- Reduce This To Save Memory
$GrabData = eregi("$GrabStart(.*)$GrabEnd", $RetrieveFile, $DataPrint);
// $DataPrint[1] = str_replace("", "", $DataPrint[1]);   //- Un-Comment This Line for "Replace" purposes!
// $DataPrint[1] = str_replace("", "", $DataPrint[1]);   //- Un-Comment This Line for "Replace" purposes!
fclose($OpenFile); //- DO NOT CHANGE
echo $DataPrint[1]; //- DO NOT CHANGE

This script works just fine:

include("http://www.switchboard.com");

Is it possible that fopen or fread is blocked by switchboard.com? If so, is there any workaround?

Thanks, Mike

MarkR

PLEASE do not include() remote files.

It does not do what you think it does and it will cause a serious security risk.

Some web sites may change their content based on the user-agent of the requestor. Of course in order to determine this you should try it with multiple user-agents.

Mark

cahva

Your script is not working because of this:

$RetrieveFile = fread($OpenFile, 200000);

Page is larger than that(200000) so eregi fails to do anything because it cannot find </html> which is at the end.
Why not use just file_get_contents('http://www.domain.com'); because you are fetching the whole page anyway. Use that and remove those fopen fclose etc. from your script.