Posted by Philip Hallstrom on 05/28/05 01:11

> 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"); ??

Why can't you just do...

fopen("http://127.0.0.1/somedirectory", "r");

?

Odds are when you do it the other way "your" IP address is *NOT*
127.0.0.1, but whatever your "Internet" IP address is.

-philip

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