fopen & urls

[jgutierrez]

Hello all,

 

I am running php 5.2.4 and 4.3.9 on the same machine that uses the same php.ini file. I run php 5.2.4 by doing the following at the command line:

 

[jgutierrez@jgutierrez] php5 <script_name>

 

and I run php 4.3.9 by doing the following

 

[jgutierrez@jgutierrez] php <script_name>

 

I am using 5.2.4 and trying use fopen() to fetch a web page. However, when I call fopen() with a url I get the following warning:

 

Warning: fopen(<url>): failed to open stream: No such file or directory.

 

I checked the php.ini file to see if the variable "allow_url_fopen" is set to "On" and it is. I can call fopen() on a different machine running 5.2.3-1 and I get the requested page. Is there something that I am missing? Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[teng84]

it says you dont have that file try to filter it first using http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-exists.php

[jgutierrez]

Thanks for the reply. I am not trying to use fopen() to open a file. I am using it to open a web page.

[teng84]

can we see your code?

[jgutierrez]

Note: I had to alter the url because I am posting to a gateway owned by a billing company and the url is specific to my company.

 

<?php

$url = "https://someurl.com/api/?name=SERVICE&version=1.0&clientid=001&user_id=A001&password=password";

$http_handle = fopen($url, "r");

$response_contents = fread($http_handle, 512);

print_r($response_contents . "\n");

?>

 

[teng84]

$handle = fopen("http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,173024.0.html", "rb");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
  $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);
echo $contents;

try that and replace the url

[jgutierrez]

Hmm...the call to fopen() yields the same warning.

[teng84]

can you access that page using url alone ?

[jgutierrez]

Yes

[teng84]

Yes

then there  should you should be fine? does the script i gave you work using the phpfreak as url?

[jgutierrez]

Using the phpfreaks url worked. However, the url I am using uses https protocol, not http.

[rarebit]

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

 

Warning

 

When using SSL, Microsoft IIS will violate the protocol by closing the connection without sending a close_notify indicator. PHP will report this as "SSL: Fatal Protocol Error" when you reach the end of the data. To workaround this, you should lower your error_reporting level not to include warnings. PHP 4.3.7 and higher can detect buggy IIS server software when you open the stream using the https:// wrapper and will suppress the warning for you. If you are using fsockopen() to create an ssl:// socket, you are responsible for detecting and suppressing the warning yourself.

 

Further down is this, http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php#58099

 

 

[dewey_witt]

Try This.....

 

<?php
$data=file("https:\\www.someurl.com\htmlpage.html"); 

foreach ($data as $l => $r) { 
echo $r;
}
?>