Posted by Jay Paulson on 05/27/05 21:57

Hello all-

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to call a web site using fopen.
Let me tell you how things are set up and what I'm trying to do. I
can call fopen to read a site and then echo it back out. That's not a
problem. The problem I run into is when I try to go to a restricted
area of a site.

For example, in my Apache httpd.conf file I have it set up to where I
have a directory that is only accessible from certain IP addresses, one
of which is 127. (the localhost). The script I'm running is located on
the server and the web site I'm trying to access via fopen() is on the
same server. Therefore, I'm thinking that the php script should have
access to read the site's restricted directory. For some reason it
does not have access.

I was wondering if there was a way around this or am I just doomed to
never be able to access the directory via
fopen("http://someurl.com/somedirectory","r"); ??

Thanks.
Jay

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