Re: fopen, fsockopen on my virtual host

Richard Lynch wrote:

Al wrote:

Richard Lynch wrote:

Al wrote:

I've got a script that fetches a stream from a file on our virtual host. Its been working fine; but, yesterday they changed something and it no longer works.

Can you define "no longer works" a bit more clearly... Error messages? Just times out? What?

$fp= fsockopen("www.oursite.org", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30); I can use any remote site and fscockopen works fine. Anyone have a suggestion as to how I deal with this problem?

if ($errno){ error_log("fsockopen errored out with # $errno: $errstr"); }

Here is my error report:

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to www.restonrunners.org:80 in /www/r/reston/htdocs/phpList/PQ/PQutility.php on line 364 Operation timed out (60)

fsockopen() works fine with remote URLs and even "localhost"; but, not with our own URL. I'd use "localhost" but, I need to attach some GET arguments and I can't figure out a way to do it. e.g., $str= file_get_contents(localhost?page=processqueue&login=Pmin&password=xxxxx)

Put some quotes on that, and http:// on the front, and it should work as-is. Your own domain not working is a symptom of something else though... Can you ping restonrunners.org? What happens if you try to do this in a shell: telnet restonrunners.org 80 GET / HTTP/1.0 Host: restonrunners.org Hit 'return' twice after the 'Host:' line. You should get your homepage. You may have some firewall mis-configured, or DNS issues, or /etc/hosts might be messed up or... Many things *could* be wrong to cause this, but none of them are really PHP-related.

You are correct, the problem is due to the host switching to "load balancing" servers. Required syntax is now fsockopen("localhost.domain.com", port, time) and $string= file_get_contents("http://localhost.domain.com/path"). Thanks again....