Just a wild guess, but try url; http://localhost/zed/htdocs/rgfindingaids/series594.html or file://zed/htdocs/rgfindingaids/series594.html to bypass your web server I am struggling with the section of the manual that deals with this as well. http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.stream.php hope this helps, Warren Vail > -----Original Message----- > From: Mulley, Nikhil [mailto:mnikhil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 6:58 AM > To: Adam Williams; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: fopen and http:// > > > May be the path is not the correct ,just check with the Web > Directory you configured to be and if its htdocs then I would say > that its better to remove the htdocs from the path in fopen statement. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Williams [mailto:awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 6:22 PM > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: fopen and http:// > > > Hi, I'm having a problem with fopen and http files. I keep getting the > error: > > Warning: fopen(http://zed/htdocs/rgfindingaids/series594.html ) > [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! > HTTP/1.1 404 > Not Found in /home/awilliam/public_html/rgfaidstest.php on line 15 > http://zed/htdocs/rgfindingaids/series594.html does not exist > > Warning: fopen(http://zed/htdocs/rgfindingaids/ser391.html ) > [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! > HTTP/1.1 404 > Not Found in /home/awilliam/public_html/rgfaidstest.php on line 15 > http://zed/htdocs/rgfindingaids/ser391.html does not exist > > Warning: fopen(http://zed/htdocs/rgfindingaids/ser392.html ) > [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! > HTTP/1.1 404 > Not Found in /home/awilliam/public_html/rgfaidstest.php on line 15 > http://zed/htdocs/rgfindingaids/ser392.html does not exist > > > > I have a text file /home/awilliam/public_html/rgfaids containing > URLs such > as: > > http://zed/htdocs/rgfindingaids/series594.html > http://zed/htdocs/rgfindingaids/ser391.html > http://zed/htdocs/rgfindingaids/ser392.html > > and I can bring up these URLs fine in a browser on the PC i'm running the > script on. > > The following is my code: > > <? > > $filelist = fopen("/home/awilliam/public_html/rgfaids", "r"); > > if (!$filelist) > { > echo "error opening rgfaids"; > exit; > } > > while ( !feof($filelist)) > { > $line = fgets($filelist, 99999); > > $filetotest = fopen("$line", "r"); > > if (!$filetotest) > { > echo "$line does not exist<br>"; > } > elseif ($filetotest) > { > echo "$line does exist"; > } > } > > ?> > > > > But I don't understand why I am getting that error about failed to open > strem: HTTP request failed, when I can bring up the links fine in a > browser on the server running the php script. So can anyone help > me out? > Thanks > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
