Re: Pear package like Snoopy

The weird thing is that I do an outbound check from this remote server on about 5000 other URLs. All of which come up fine. If I do a get on yahoo.com from this server, it works. Along with the thousands of checks that work everyday. So does that eliminate a,b,c,d? Or, could say a DNS server work for 5000 other links and just be screwing this one up? Rob Roy Barreca __________________________________________________ Electronic Insight ..... a web development company Email .................. rob@electronicinsight.com Website ................ www.electronicinsight.com Justin Patrin wrote:

On 5/2/05, Rob Barreca <rob@electronicinsight.com> wrote:

Well, I tried using HTTP_Request thinking maybe it was Snoopy, but it does not work remotely either. It's strange because when I run the following code locally, it grabs the webpage, but my remote server can't seem to "see" http://www.thehealthinsurance.com/. Anybody have any thoughts on this?

So you're getting an fsockopen error? Your problem is that your remote server a) has these connections turned off in PHP, b) has a bogus / bad DNS server which is bungling the DNS lookup, c) has a firewall which stops outgoing traffic, d) is simply broken.

When I go straight to the IP for http://www.thehealthinsurance.com/ (ping'd and found it was 69.36.176.169) it is actually a different web page (http://www.italian-charms-and-bracelets.com/), so they have multiple websites hosted on the same IP and I'm sure this is what's causing the trouble, but don't know how to work around it.

I doubt that's your problem. It's called a virtual server and it's used all over the place. Ever had a shared hosting account? It's on a virtual server unless you have your own IP.

require_once "HTTP/Request.php"; $req =& new HTTP_Request("http://www.thehealthinsurance.com/"); if (!PEAR::isError($req->sendRequest())) { echo $req->getResponseBody(); } else { print_r($req); } Justin Patrin wrote:

On 5/2/05, Rob Barreca <rob@electronicinsight.com> wrote:

Not a direct Pear question, but I'm using Snoopy (http://snoopy.sourceforge.net) to check if sites link back to ours and it works great except for one url: http://www.thehealthinsurance.com When I do even a file_get_contents or anything it gives me a *Warning*: fsockopen(): php_hostconnect: connect failed in */home/www/valuestream.com/html/links/Snoopy.class.php* on line *1146* *Warning*: fsockopen(): unable to connect to www.thehealthinsurance.com:80 in */home/www/valuestream.com/html/links/Snoopy.class.php* on line *1146 *Anyone have any thoughts on this? Is there a Pear package that works better?

HTTP_Request / HTTP_Client.