On Friday 22 June 2007 10:59 am, Tijnema wrote: > On 6/22/07, Ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > hello, > > I'm having some problems with fsockopen and was hopping for some help. > > I try to connect to a host via fsockopen and I get "getaddrinfo failed" > > errors, but if I try fsockopen with google, everything works. > > > > sample test code > > $fp=fsockopen('apps.subname.domain.com/xml_2.4/xml.php',80,$errno, > > $errstr); > > var_dump($errno); > > var_dump($errstr); > > $fp=fsockopen("000.00.00.000/xml_2.4/xml.php",80,$errno, $errstr); > > var_dump($errno); > > var_dump($errstr); > > $fp=fsockopen('www.google.ca',80,$errno, $errstr); > > var_dump($errno); > > var_dump($errstr); > > > > (sorry for sanitizing, not my choice.) > > I can ping the host from the server, and going to this site in a browser > > gives the expected output. > > > > Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: php_network_getaddresses: > > getaddrinfo failed: hostname nor servname provided, or not known > > in /usr/local/www/apache22/data/index.php on line 119 > > > > Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to > > apps.subname.domain.com/xml_2.4/xml.php:80 (Unknown error) > > in /usr/local/www/apache22/data/index.php on line 119 > > int(0) string(0) "" > > > > [note no error for google. should be here] > > > > Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: php_network_getaddresses: > > getaddrinfo failed: hostname nor servname provided, or not known > > in /usr/local/www/apache22/data/index.php on line 122 > > > > Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to > > 000.00.00.000/xml_2.4/xml.php:80 (Unknown error) > > in /usr/local/www/apache22/data/index.php on line 122 > > int(0) string(0) "" int(0) string(0) "" > > With fsockopen you connect to a host, not to the host with full path... > This would work fine: > $fp=fsockopen('apps.subname.domain.com',80,$errno, > $errstr); > var_dump($errno); > var_dump($errstr); > Now you probably want to get that file, so you should do a fwrite: > fwrite($fp,"GET /xml_2.4/xml.php HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: > apps.subname.domain.com\r\n\r\n"); > *note: All above should be on one single line > Then, after you made a request, you can get the data with fread: > $data = fread($fp,102400); // 100KB of data max > This returns the page, including the headers! > If you only want data, you're better off using file_get_contents > function, like this: > $data = file_get_contents("'apps.subname.domain.com/xml_2.4/xml.php"); > > Hope this helps ;) > > Tijnema Thanks, that does help. Thats exactly what I was looking for. Ray -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php