Re: connect through firewall

Hi, thanks for the tip, i had got that wrong, but still: I tried with full path and file name but the problem (with the same error messages) persists. any ideas? dimo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Ward" <tim.ward@stivesdirect.com> To: "'Dimo Velev'" <velev@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:14 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] connect through firewall > surely fopen requires a full (or relative) path plus filename. Your example > just gives a path -if this is the line that's falling over that's why. > fopen() opens the file, it isn't like passing a url to the browser. > > Tim Ward > Senior Systems Engineer > > Please refer to the following disclaimer in respect of this message: > http://www.stivesdirect.com/e-mail-disclaimer.html > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dimo Velev [mailto:velev@informatik.tu-muenchen.de] > > Sent: 10 December 2000 10:59 > > To: PHP-general > > Subject: [PHP] connect through firewall > > > > > > hi, > > its me again, i tried with fopen() and it seems to almost do > > the job. except > > that when i try to view the following php page: > > <?PHP > > $fp = > > fopen("http://www.php.net/","r"); > > $contents = fread ($fp, 1000); > > fclose ($fp); > > print "$contents";?> > > i get > > Warning: > > fopen("http://www.php.net/","r") - Bad file > > descriptor in > > d:\www\Apache\htdocs/test.php on line 10 > > Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in > > d:\www\Apache\htdocs/test.php on line 11 > > Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in > > d:\www\Apache\htdocs/test.php on line 12 > > > > is that becouse i am behind firewall? how can I get it > > working, behind the > > firewall > > dimo > > > >