fopen not opening url

here's the code i'm using below to try and open up the url.. :) thanks! jay $fp = fopen("http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Music%20business%20news&o=xml" , "r"); $length = filesize($fp); $content = fread($fp,$length); fclose($fp); echo $content; ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Dempsey" <dabigdemp@hotmail.com> To: "'Jay Paulson'" <jpaulson@lbjs.com> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 1:52 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] fopen not opening url > Hi jay, > > I've done the exact thing you're trying, and it works...paste in some > code so we can see where its going wrong... > > jack > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jay Paulson [mailto:jpaulson@lbjs.com] > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 2:08 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] fopen not opening url > > hello- > I'm trying to use the fopen() command to open the url below and just > read it > into another $var. However, I'm having some problems.... the warning i > get > is below along with the url in the warning. Anyone know what's going on > here?? > > Thanks, > jay > > Warning: php_hostconnect: connect failed > Warning: > > fopen("http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?c=Music%20business%20news&o= > xml" > ,"r") - Bad file descriptor