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"Restrictions with PHP on Freeola"

I've just been writing a small Script, to test a few things out, and part of it uses fsockopen(); to open up a connection with a Web Site. The thing I have found is that if I try and connect to any of my sites on Freeola, the returning value is always a 404, even when I know a particular page is on the server, as I have it open in front of me when I test.

Other Web Sites open up and connect without any problems, giving back the expected 200 OK message, yet Freeola hostes sites send back a 404 Error message for every Page under my Domains.

Is this a restriction on Freeola accouts, whereby other sites can't connect to them via the PHP fsockopen(); function???

Oh, I saw a mistake, your code had the / within the code, whereas I had it within the $Page string, hence two // :)

Got rid of one, added the Host: back again, and it seems to be working :)

*fingers Crossed*

Thanks for your help.

I get the same result if I leave Host out, but if I put it in, I get 'Bad Request'.

Strange.

Strange, the only code I used is...

$Host = "www.abcsoftware2000.co.uk";
$Page = "index.htm";

@ $fp = fsockopen("$Host", 80, &$ErrorNo, &$ErrorDesc, 10)
or
die("

Connection to $Host$Page failed.

\n\n\n");
print "Trying $Host
";
print "Trying to get $Page
\n";
fputs($fp, "HEAD /$Page HTTP/1.0\nHost:www.abcsoftware2000.co.uk\n\n");
print fgets($fp, 1024);
fclose($fp);

Just picked a freeola hosted site at random there from freeola's customer sites list. And running that gives me...

Trying www.abcsoftware2000.co.uk
Trying to get index.htm
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

if leave out the host field I get

Trying www.abcsoftware2000.co.uk
Trying to get index.htm
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Garin wrote:
> HEAD /index.php HTTP/1.0\nHost:www.haignet.co.uk\n\n

I get the result of a 'Bad Request' with this one.

Trying without the http:// in the address, I still get the the 404 Error message.


Rob, I don't know jack about Proxy stuff :) Even though I probably should. What do you mean by a public proxy??

All I know is other Web Sites I tried to conenct to, even these Chat Forums, bring up a '200 OK' message, where as any Freeola hosted site still are not found.

Just looking at your sample code, your page request is missing some info....
You should really have

HEAD /index.php HTTP/1.0\nHost:www.haignet.co.uk\n\n

Forgotten why you need the host tag, same vague memory out it being because of servers hosting several domains or something like that.

Also, not really sure if fsockopen will like you passing http://www.haignet.co.uk as opposed to www.haignet.co.uk

Just had a quick copy/paste of your code with those changes, certainly works for me on www.haignet.co.uk.

Ah well in which case it's very probable it won't connect to Freeola pages properly. You'll have to wait for a Freeola tech type person to reply and give you full details though. In the mean time you could try find a public proxy (I might know a few) and use some proxy skillz. If you use a proxy it will open Freeola pages okay.

For when someone fills in a form, and enters a Web Address, the Script tries opening a connection to the page and returns a nummber, representing the connections status (404 - no page, 200 OK - it does exist) etc. Its just to make sure the Web Address someone enters does exist:

Here is the sample code:

$Host = "http://www.haignet.co.uk/";
$Page = "index.php";

@ $fp = fsockopen("$Host", 80, &$ErrorNo, &$ErrorDesc, 10)
or
die("

Connection to $Host$Page failed.

\n\n\n");
print "Trying $Host
";
print "Trying to get $Page
\n";
fputs($fp, "HEAD $Page HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n");
print fgets($fp, 1024);
fclose($fp);

This could be a routing issue and it probably unsolvable - not a restriction as such, just.. something that happens. What are you trying to do?

I've just been writing a small Script, to test a few things out, and part of it uses fsockopen(); to open up a connection with a Web Site. The thing I have found is that if I try and connect to any of my sites on Freeola, the returning value is always a 404, even when I know a particular page is on the server, as I have it open in front of me when I test.

Other Web Sites open up and connect without any problems, giving back the expected 200 OK message, yet Freeola hostes sites send back a 404 Error message for every Page under my Domains.

Is this a restriction on Freeola accouts, whereby other sites can't connect to them via the PHP fsockopen(); function???