fopen in php

Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 4:12 pm (21 years, 11 months ago)

I used the following in my phpscript:

Code:

$fp = fopen ("http://postxxxxx:????@piustien.dyndns.org:8011/Settings/USERS/geert.html", "r") or die ("No connection");

This doesn't work on my webspace from f2s. On another server it works. Why???

Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 5:19 pm (21 years, 11 months ago)

But on my other server this works. Only on the f2s server it doesn't.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

It's because of F2S' firewall: you can only open files on the F2S network and certain "allowed" servers. Try asking F2S to add the server you want to the list. Question

Andrew: I don't think that's true.

Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 5:42 pm (21 years, 11 months ago)

Its definitely an f2s thing.

My f2s account fails to open a remote file on cyberwings, but it works vice versa.

Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 5:44 pm (21 years, 11 months ago)

Thanks,
i will contact the f2s staff.

Junior WebHelper Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 49

Yes, you may use fopen with a non-local url at f2s. I know b/c I have that going at the former freespace I had at f2s and just now I tried it on my paid f2s space and it worked there, too. Very Happy

Just a couple of pts. about fopen:

1. you must use it to only read a non-local url
2. be very, very careful how you code in case fopen should fail or you may get a wierd error.
3. I've seen fopen perform very badly on a busy US govt server. fsockopen is prob. a better way to go b/c it gives you more control.

I suggest that you may wish to read the notes section at:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php -

Here's the way I'ved coded and it worked:

$fd2 = @fopen($urle, "r");
if (!$fd2) return 0;

And, here are the 2 working urls at f2s:

http://www.preservestaffnow.org/exp/myfeed.php
http://www.preservestaffnow.f2s.com/myfeed.php

Perhaps f2s may have changed s.thing recently b/c I checked just now with the phpinfo() and saw that the fopen info at both of my sites at f2s are identical, namely all "1"s.

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