fopen("http://.... fails every time

[Anon]

Hi, I'm trying to open an url with fopen but I get a "php_hostconnect: connect failed" error. I've tried this with localhost and other known hosts but it fails always.

I'm running PHP 4.0.5 on Win2K.

Can anyone help?

thanks

[aroderick]

If you are trying to get an entire file to include or display use 'fileread($file)'. I had a similar problem and this worked great. If this will not work post a little more info on what the file is and what you need to do with it.

Thanks,
Adam

[Anon]

Thanks for the reply! Actually I was trying to open a remote URL, not a local file.

but.....

I rebooted the system and it works now! I feel like an idiot.