Re: opening remote files.

The site may be checking cookies or something and refusing entrance based on that or even just on the type of browser (presumably none) that PHP is claiming to be. Some sites do this to avoid rude spiders from search engines that will *HAMMER* their site, ignoring the robot guidelines which require that they not visit their site too fast/frequently. ----- Original Message ----- From: Len Coonan <len_coonan@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: php.general Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 5:41 PM Subject: [PHP] opening remote files. > I am trying to open a remote file using fopen. > > > $fp = fopen("http://www.somewhere.com/data.html","r"þ > ,`ÃÐ Ü0”ÀáÆÙn); > > but this gives me a warning saying it cannot connect. > I can browse to the site using netscape, and view the > file, but php does not seem to be able to read it. Is > there any settings/services that I need to configure > to use this feature. > > > Redhat Linux 7 > Apache web server > PHP 4 > > I connect to the internet via modem using the RH > Dialler. > > > Any advise or help would be appreciated. > > > thanks > > len. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. > http://shopping.yahoo.com/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >