Re: fopen()

> > if (!($fc = > > > > fopen("http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&&ie=ISO-8859-1q=asd > > f", "r"))) { > > echo "couldnt open file."; > > } else { > > $content = fread($fc,10000000); > > } > > echo "$content\n"; > > > > Why doesn't this work? > > What happens if you just type: > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&&ie=ISO-8859-1q=asdf > > Into a web browser? Does it load what you expected to load? Yes. It does. And to make it even more bizarre, when I use fsockopen and fgets I get the page back! However, there are also instances where fsockopen and fgets do not return the page either... Some other instances, fgets prints a 301 / 302 redirect message as the output. What I am starting to think, is that google often returns 301 / 302 error codes (Object has moved). Does fopen and fsockopen follow 30* redirect requests? Even a better question, does fopen() return error text if it gets a error code from the server? -- me PS: Here's the fsockopen code that works (on a temporary basis) $google = fsockopen("www.google.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30); if (!$google) { echo "Can't connect\n"; } else { fputs($google, "GET /search?hl=en&&ie=ISO-8859-1q=asdf\r\n\r\n"); while (!feof($google)) { echo fgets($google, 128); } close($google); }