Failed/Bad Requests from a localserver.

[Bladescope]

Hey awesome ones :3,

 

I've been making my own rss reader, sortof.

 

The sortof is down to a problem I'm having on my local server (Apache 2.2.. Using Firefox (untested on IE), everytime I make a request using simplexml, It's pulling back some odd results.

 

For gmail, The request fails completely, it brings back

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity "https://-snip-:[email protected]/gmail/feed/atom" in D:\AppServ\www\webPortal\gmail.php  on line 2

 

For facebook, the request brings back a huge amount of warnings which suggest the page being returned is a HTML file.

 

So then I tried file_get_contents() which produced strange results too.

 

For gmail, the result was

Warning: file_get_contents(https://[email protected]/gmail/feed/atom) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Invalid argument in D:\AppServ\www\webPortal\gmail.php  on line 2

 

For facebook, the result was a facebook page, fully formatted and such, telling me I was using an invalid browser.

 

Oddly enough, I have a small rss feed on my hosted site which worked when I tested it with simplexml.

 

So I can't seem to figure out what the problem is. On that note, I was hoping I could get a little bit of help from the community.

 

Any help on this is so greatly appreciated!

 

Regards,

Bladescope

[Bladescope]

Thanks for the help guys. Really :/