Re: Reading a file from another server

<20030725214829.35730.qmail@pb1.pair.com> Thomas: > Hi Everyone. > > I'm having problems creating code to read a file from another server. > > 1. Is this even possible? with a secure server aswell? > 2. I have tried using fopen() but this always gives me an > error: > > Warning: stat failed for http://www.domain.com/test.txt > (errno=2 - No > such file or directory) in > /home/domain/public_html/php/testphp/test.php on line 4 > > this is my code: > <?php > $filename = "http://www.domain.com/test.txt"; > $handle = fopen ($filename, "r"); > $content = fread($handle, filesize ($filename)); > fclose($handle); > > echo $content; > >> > > can anyone help me. I need to put this on my server, and read this > other file form a game server....but I can't seem to do it. > > Cheers for any help Quote: If PHP has decided that filename specifies a registered protocol, and that protocol is registered as a network URL, PHP will check to make sure that allow_url_fopen is enabled. If it is switched off, PHP will emit a warning and the fopen call will fail. But then again, that's not the error it gave...