note 96069 deleted from function.fopen by danbrown

Note Submitter: darkain at darkain dot com ---- "Returns a file pointer resource on success, or FALSE on error." This is NOT always the case. If PHP is compiled with the "--with-curlwrappers" option, then fopen() will return a stream handle (NOT FALSE) even for pages that are Error404, Error500, etc. This can easily be tested: <?php $file = @fopen('http://www.example.com/a-non-existant-page/', 'rb'); var_dump($file); ?> Output with "--with-curlwrappers" " resource(37) of type (stream) " Output without "--with-curlwrappers" " bool(false) " It took me an entire day of hunting until I found out that this compile switch was used on my web host but not on development machine. "--with-curlwrappers" should probably be better documented. I have documented my findings here: http://darkain.livejournal.com/492112.html