fopen fails to open localhost

[topcoder1]

I'm trying to use fopen another url, it doesn't work on localhost, however it works on other domains(such as google.com).  The localhost url is valid.

I have tried both fopen and file_get_contents.  the php page simply hangs and says:

PHP Warning:  fopen(http://localhost/) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to open stream: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.\r\n in D:\\Program Files\\Apache Group\\Apache2\\htdocs\\myapp\\callurl.php on line 3

[Thu Apr 30 14:43:22 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error:  Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded

 

callurl.php:

<?php

//$content = file_get_contents("http://localhost/myapp/test.php");

$handle = fopen("http://localhost/", "r");

$contents = '';

while (!feof($handle)) {

  $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);

 

}

fclose($handle);

echo($contents);

?>

[neogemima]

have you tried the relative address and the absolute address of the localhost?  See what happens.

[nankoweap]

is your localhost's webserver up and running on port 80?