help in fsockopen()........

[perlkeats]

hi

i have the following error if i run my code:

errors:
Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: gethostbyname failed in D:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\socketest.php on line 31

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to

http://www.ecb.int:80

in D:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\socketest.php on line 31
The operation completed successfully.



code:

<?
$url = '

http://www.ecb.int/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml';

/*$url_file = fopen($url,'rb');
while (!feof($url_file)) {
$chunk = fread($url_file,1024);
echo $chunk;
}*/

$retVal='';
$url_parsed = parse_url($url);
$scheme = $url_parsed["scheme"];
echo $scheme;
$host = $url_parsed["host"];
echo $host;
$port = $url_parsed["port"]?$url_parsed["port"]:"80";
echo $port;
$user = $url_parsed["user"];
echo $user;
$pass = $url_parsed["pass"];
echo $pass;
$path = $url_parsed["path"]?$url_parsed["path"]:"/";
echo $path;
$query = $url_parsed["query"];
echo $query;
$anchor = $url_parsed["fragment"];
echo $anchor;
$userAgent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)";

// attempt to open the socket
if($fp = fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr, 2)){
echo 'open';
$path .= $query?"?$query":"";
$path .= $anchor?"$anchor":"";

// this is the request we send to the host
$out = "GET $path ".
"HTTP/1.0\r\n".
"Host: $host\r\n".
"Connection: Close\r\n".
"User-Agent: $userAgent\r\n";
if($user)
$out .= "Authorization: Basic ".
base64_encode("$user:$pass")."\r\n";
$out .= "\r\n";

fputs($fp, $out);
while (!feof($fp)) {
$retVal.=fgets($fp, 128);
echo 'reading';
}
fclose($fp);
} else {
echo $errstr;
}
?>



regards
keats

 

[DRJ478]

Are you sure you want to limit the time to establish a connection to two(2) seconds?

fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr, [COLOR=red][b]2[/b][/color])

HAve you tried if the function gethostbyname() resolves the hostname to an IP? If not, there might be a problem with the DNS setup.