Posted by tim on 05/21/06 23:22

> > Thank you for the reply.... However, I forgot to mention in my
> > initial post that if I try it with a normal http post on port 80 it
> > still throws an error: Something like:
> >
> > "Unable to find the socket transport "http" - did you forget to enable
> > it when you configured PHP?
> >

> My only suggestion is recompile php with --enable-sockets as well as
> --with-openssl like Colin said earlier.

I made a big mistake. I thought fsockopen was one of the socket
functions and needed enabling. It isn't. Its one of the network
functions and is always available.

By chance I got the exact same message you had when I tried
fsockopen('http://servername.com',80) but itr workde when I tried
fsockopen('servername.com',80)

>From the looks of http://uk.php.net/manual/en/transports.php the right
way to do a normal http request with fsockopen is using 'tcp://' not
'http://'.....Also tcp:// is assumed if by default if one isn't
specified and http:// isnt recognised.

Tim

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