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Bug #27105 Cannot open remote URL's
Submitted: 2004-01-31 08:47 UTC Modified: 2004-02-06 11:23 UTC
Votes:7
Avg. Score:4.4 ± 0.9
Reproduced:7 of 7 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (14.3%)
Same OS:2 (28.6%)
From: jprins at ision dot nl Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: HTTP related
PHP Version: 4.3.4 OS: Unix
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2004-01-31 08:47 UTC] jprins at ision dot nl 
Description:
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PHP issues this warning:

Warning: main(http://www.ccmplanet.com/): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in /home/sites/site90/web/testrss.php on line 17

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'http://www.ccmplanet.com/' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/sites/site90/web/testrss.php on line 17

The weird thing is that this error only occurs on the 
combination of my server (http://www.refresh.cx) and 
the remote server (http://www.ccmplanet.com). 

I _can_ include other remote URL's and other sites that 
also use php-include from ccmplanet.com don't have problems accessing ccmplanet.com



Reproduce code:
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URL: http://www.refresh.cx/testrss.php

Code in this file:

<?php
include("http://www.ccmplanet.com/");
var_dump($http_response_headers);
?>


Expected result:
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It should just include the file (it worked for years, but since a few hours it stopped working, I suspect my hosting provider from changing (upgrading?) the system).
Yes, I already asked what they did (no reply sofar)

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 [2004-01-31 10:46 UTC] jprins at ision dot nl 
Tom, thanks for the quick response, the page still fails on my system.

Here's a link to phpinfo.

http://www.refresh.cx/php-info.php
 [2004-01-31 12:25 UTC] pollita@php.net 
(1) In your test script dump the contents of $http_response_header, not $http_response_headers.

(2) Use readfile() when all you're including is content and not actual PHP code.  Using include() on a remote URL which you don't control is a security risk and a completely unnecessary one in this context.
 [2004-01-31 13:15 UTC] jprins at ision dot nl 
Changed the include into readfile, but same result
 [2004-01-31 23:41 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Works fine with latest CVS snapshot. Worked fine with PHP 4.2.2 too. :)
 [2004-02-01 03:29 UTC] jprins at ision dot nl 
I don't think the weird characters in the error message are
normal?

Warning: readfile(http://www.ccmplanet.com/): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! ?ES?@4???>??\@@???<?? in /home/sites/site90/web/testrss.php on line 5
 [2004-02-01 05:51 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Why does it work fine for me? Using this script:

<?php
readfile("http://www.ccmplanet.com/");
var_dump($http_response_headers);
?>

I get the page contents and the correct headers..
So what is different? (I'm running the script with CLI)
 [2004-02-06 11:23 UTC] sniper@php.net 
No feedback was provided. The bug is being suspended because
we assume that you are no longer experiencing the problem.
If this is not the case and you are able to provide the
information that was requested earlier, please do so and
change the status of the bug back to "Open". Thank you.

..and you should fix your server..
 [2004-09-02 08:18 UTC] maximander at gmail dot com 
We at gerpok.com are also encountering this error. Using a packet sniffer and file(), as well as fsockopen() we tracked the problem to the fact that php is not sending a 'Host:' header, nor the double line return to mark the end of headers, but rather is stopping after the first line ("GET .... HTTP/1.0")
we have several questions:
1) shouldn't it use http/1.1 ?
2) why isn't it sending all the headers?
3) Why does it retry the "GET ..." several times rather than finishing the first one?
4) What the $#%^ are those funny characters in the error msg?

using fsockopen() we can send the "GET ..." and "Host..." headers manually and the request works fine.

PHP Version: 4.3.8
OS: Gentoo Linux(2.6.7 kernel)
Apache 2
Tried php 5.0.1,'--enable-debug' and yes, allow_url_fopen is set to On. 

email me if you want more specific info.
 
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