HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404

[amarques]

Hi,

I have a piece of code on one server that tries to open a file on another server.
I define the handle as:

$checklastserverlistupdate=fopen ("http://www.example.com/xxxxxxxx/yyyyyyy/serverlistupdated.php", "rb");

Annoyingly, when I execute the script, sometimes it makes the connection, but usually I get a ...failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 in... error.

The file in example.com is available and can be reached on a browser. Any ideas on why this happens? Could it be that the path or filename is too long?

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks.

[sneakyimp]

I suggest you read about [man]fopen[/man]. If by 'sometimes' you mean you're using a single machine and sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't then it's probably network issues.

If by 'sometimes' you mean that on some machines you can and some you can't then it's probably got something to do with the machine config.