Try this snapshot:

http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-latest.zip

Just a note that I should have made the two example URLs the same - they were before I edited them.

Try the snapshot..

The error still occurs.

Version info:
PHP Version 4.3.0-dev
API Versions:
  PHP: 20020307
  PHP Extension: 20020429
  Zend Extension: 20020429

Using the bundled version of GD2 the error message changed to...

Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg("http://www.someserver.net/php/images/fakeid/main.jpg") - Invalid argument in c:\dir\fakeid.php on line 53

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".

feedback was given..happens also with 4.3.0-dev.

Please add the shortest possible example script
into this report which can be used to reproduce this.
(and set the status back to 'Open' when you do this..)

<?php
imagecreatefromjpeg("http://midg3t.homeip.net/images/psu-engrish.jpg");
?>

Attempt to open a remote image via imagecreatefromjpeg() results in a 'failed to create stream: invalid argument' error.
Opening the same url with fopen() works properly.

I could not verify this (on Linux):

[derick@kossu derick]$ php -v
PHP 4.3.0-dev (cli), Copyright (c) 1997-2002 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Zend Technologies

[derick@kossu derick]$ php > foo.png
<?php
$f = imagecreatefromjpeg("http://midg3t.homeip.net/images/psu-engrish.jpg");
imagepng($f);
?>

[derick@kossu derick]$ file foo.png
foo.png: PNG image data, 342 x 435, 8-bit colormap, non-interlaced


Derick

streams related...

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-latest.zip

The problem is that the GD extension explicitly disables URL access under windows (it uses the IGNORE_URL_WIN flag when opening the stream).
Yesterday, I enabled this functionality along with include/require for remote files.

Please try a snapshot and let us know how you get on.

I downloaded that snapshot, maybe because of an error and maybe just because I don't have very much experience in running a PHP server, I got this error on starting Apache...

(null)(): Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\Program Files\PHP\extensions/php_gd.dll' - The specified procedure could not be found.

The php_gd.dll file is in the extensions directory, so I think it may have to do with there being a forwardslash instead of backslash. The extensions directory is configured correctly in my php.ini file.

extension_dir = "C:\Program Files\PHP\extensions"

I apologise if I have made an oversight.

Did you remember to replace ALL the existing PHP related dlls with the ones found in the snapshot package?

php4ts.dll and all the extensions and their extra dlls.

Thanks for your help, all works fine now.

If it isn't too much trouble to ask, why would the IGNORE_URL_WIN flag have been used in the past?

PHP 4.3.0 comes with a rewritten filemanagement system (Streams) which doesn't rely on features that windows didn't implement.

Derick

Hi,
there must be an unreported change because the images get very dark.
Mark

Hello,

'images get very dark' is not very usefull.

Can you provide a link to these images and a simple script to load them? (aka imagefromjpeg(); and save them). Getting "dark" image has nothing to do with the load from URL problem, imho.

--Pierre

Right, it has nothing to do with this problem, so don't use this bugreport for it. File a new one.