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Posted by Al on 02/01/05 16:45
Richard Lynch wrote:
> Al wrote:
>
>>Richard Lynch wrote:
>>
>>>Al wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I've got a script that fetches a stream from a file on our virtual host.
>>>>Its
>>>>been working fine; but, yesterday they changed something and it no
>>>>longer
>>>>works.
>>>
>>>Can you define "no longer works" a bit more clearly...
>>>
>>>Error messages?
>>>
>>>Just times out?
>>>
>>>What?
>>>
>>>
>>>>$fp= fsockopen("www.oursite.org", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
>>>>
>>>>I can use any remote site and fscockopen works fine.
>>>>
>>>>Anyone have a suggestion as to how I deal with this problem?
>>>
>>>
>>>if ($errno){
>>> error_log("fsockopen errored out with # $errno: $errstr");
>>>}
>>>
>>
>>Here is my error report:
>>
>>
>>>Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to www.restonrunners.org:80 in
>>>/www/r/reston/htdocs/phpList/PQ/PQutility.php on line 364
>>>Operation timed out (60)
>>
>>fsockopen() works fine with remote URLs and even "localhost"; but, not
>>with our
>>own URL.
>>
>>I'd use "localhost" but, I need to attach some GET arguments and I can't
>>figure
>>out a way to do it. e.g.,
>>
>>$str=
>>file_get_contents(localhost?page=processqueue&login=Pmin&password=xxxxx)
>
>
> Put some quotes on that, and http:// on the front, and it should work as-is.
>
> Your own domain not working is a symptom of something else though...
>
> Can you ping restonrunners.org?
>
> What happens if you try to do this in a shell:
> telnet restonrunners.org 80
> GET / HTTP/1.0
> Host: restonrunners.org
>
>
> Hit 'return' twice after the 'Host:' line.
>
> You should get your homepage.
>
> You may have some firewall mis-configured, or DNS issues, or /etc/hosts
> might be messed up or...
>
> Many things *could* be wrong to cause this, but none of them are really
> PHP-related.
>
You are correct, the problem is due to the host switching to "load balancing"
servers.
Required syntax is now fsockopen("localhost.domain.com", port, time) and
$string= file_get_contents("http://localhost.domain.com/path").
Thanks again....
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