Re[2]: [PEAR-DEV] Re: go-pear. Was:Re[2]: [PEAR-DEV] XML_RPC

Hello Pierre-Alain, >> Sorry, my fault. There should be phrase 'internet connection >> "isn\'t" available' or the word 'unavailable' in my post. PAJ> I used a local pear server, it can be done sometimes. In my PAJ> opininion the current error message is correct. What error message do you mean? Could you provide it here to assure we are talking of the same thing? >> PAJ> Do you have any other good ideas? Calling gethostbyname >> PAJ> before fsockopen is nothing than ugly and slow. >> >> fsockopen will call it anyway. You can try to call fsockopen with >> some fiction url and meditate a bit about it's error message. I'd >> be very glad if you can make a solution how to handle that error >> or at least suppress to handle it later. PAJ> Gethostbyname will not tell that there is an internet access. Local PAJ> DNS cache or other local things can get cached dns entries. PAJ> The error is to do not silent fsockopen, the io handler being PAJ> checked later. I was sure it was behind an ugly '@'... Even if you place an '@'... (which I have missed in my patch), think about the error message the user will get (I'm using PHP 4.3.9) <?php $host = 'zzzz'; $fp = @fsockopen($host, 80, $errno, $errstr); if (!$fp) { print("\nconnect to '$host' failed: $errstr ($errno)\n"); } ?> >connect to 'zzzz' failed: The operation completed successfully. (0) Rather confusing if you ask me. t --