#47191 [NEW]: Unable to find the socket transport "http" - did you forget to enable it when y

From: krishna dot gara at gmail dot com Operating system: windows PHP version: 5.3.0alpha3 PHP Bug Type: Compile Warning Bug description: Unable to find the socket transport "http" - did you forget to enable it when y Description: ------------ $url = "http://localhost"; $fp = fsockopen("$url", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30); if (!$fp) { echo "<br>the Link (URL) could ot be validated<br> <b>you entered: $url</b><p> <a href=\"../maps/map-LatLng.php\">Please try again</a><p>"; exit(); } else { echo "hi"; // then it was successful! fclose($fp); // and carry on } exit; Reproduce code: --------------- //echo $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];exit; $url = "http://localhost"; $fp = fsockopen("$url", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30); if (!$fp) { echo "<br>the Link (URL) could ot be validated<br> <b>you entered: $url</b><p> <a href=\"../maps/map-LatLng.php\">Please try again</a><p>"; exit(); } else { echo "hi"; // then it was successful! fclose($fp); // and carry on } exit; Expected result: ---------------- Need to create socket with connection -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=47191&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=fixedcvs Fixed in CVS and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47191&r=mysqlcfg