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> From: Daniel Brown <danbrown@xxxxxxx>
> To: Paul M Foster <paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:58:18 PM
> Subject: Re: POST without POSTing
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 00:41, Paul M Foster wrote:
> >
> > fsockopen() appears to be part of the standard network functions in PHP,
> > like the header() function. Do you mean that many hosts support the
> > function (as part of PHP) but don't support its use with external hosts?
> > Is there a way to determine this support from looking at phpinfo()?
>
> fsockopen() is a socket function, as the name suggests. Hosts can
> disable the usage of sockets. In fact, check Google and you'll see
> several folks complaining of their host having it disabled.
If the service provider uses jails on *BSD, then sockets are definitely disabled for security reasons. They don't want you to hack into other people's jail(s) ;)
>
> As for fopen(), there's a php.ini value `allow_url_fopen` that a
> lot of hosts have set to 'no,' I'm sure with the intent to increase
> security.... but when you can still use cURL and exec('wget'), it kind
> of defeats the purpose.
>
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