Re: PHP and fopen remote URL problems

[Greg Thomas <getbsd@dslextreme.com>]

On Feb 22, 2004, at 7:27 PM, Simon H wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I'm not sure if this is the right list for this problem but it is 
> specific to my
> OpenBSD box.
>
> In PHP I'm using a (PEAR) class to fetch RSS feeds but it fails on my 
> OpenBSD
> 3.4 box.
>
> A simple test is when I run the following script:
>
> <?php
> $fd = fopen( "http://www.php.net/";, "r" );
> if (!$fd) {
>     echo "Cannot open URL";
> } else {
>     while(!feof($fd)) {
>         $buffer = fgets($fd, 4096);
>         echo $buffer;
>     }
>     fclose( $fd );
> }
> ?>
>
> It throws the following error in error_log:
>
> [Mon Feb 23 03:06:54 2004] [error] PHP Warning:  fopen():
> php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: non-recoverable failure 
> in name
> resolution in /htdocs/test.php on line 3

Might this be the problem:

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#httpdchroot

Greg