Posted by Rik on 06/05/07 15:17

On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:39:38 +0200, shotokan99 <soft_devjava@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> actually this is how i did it:
>
> 1. i have a textbox for the user to encode the url
> 2. by $_POST['x'] ill evaluate the url if valid or not using
> file_get_contents().
> if(!file_get_contents($x){
> // do actions here..
> }
>
> however i dont know if what is wrong, file_get_contents() works
> perfectly on
> my local machine but upon loading to our webserver, it doesn't work
> at all.

allow_url_fopen enabled at home and disabled on the server?

Also, I'd just do a HEAD request using fsockopen(), unless you really need
the contents of the site in question.
--
Rik Wasmus

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