http://teton1w.tetonsolutions.com/geo/yh/test2.php runs the posted code.

Please make sure you don't have any firewalls blocking your connections.

Already checked that.  If it were a firewall issue, I wouldn't be able to do this with fsocketopen().

This works fine: http://teton1w.tetonsolutions.com/geo/yh/test3.php
<?php
function loadXFile($location) {
	$fp = fsockopen($location, 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
	if (!$fp) {
	   $result = "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
	} else {
	   $out = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
	   $out .= "Host: ".$location."\r\n";
	   $out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
	
	   fwrite($fp, $out);
	   while (!feof($fp)) {
		   $result .= fgets($fp, 128);
	   }
	   fclose($fp);
	}
	return $result;
}

print loadXFile("www.google.com")
?>

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5.2-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5.2-win32-latest.zip

Ok.. I'm now running 5.2.1RC4-dev and still have the same problem.

How to reproduce it?
# php -r 'var_dump(strlen(file_get_contents("http://google.com")));'
int(3171)

I run that and get this..

# php -r 'var_dump(strlen(file_get_contents("http://google.com")));'
PHP Warning:  file_get_contents(http://google.com): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!  in Command line code on line 1

Warning: file_get_contents(http://google.com): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!  in Command line code on line 1
int(0)

Okay, you can reproduce it. But now *I* need to reproduce it.
That was the question - how to reproduce it?
Hint: an account on your machine might be the answer.

Sorry about that.. I can give you root access.  Can I just send it to you @php account?

Absolutely no need for root access, just a usual unprivileged account is enough.
Sure, send it to tony2001@php.net.

I emailed you the root password.  I also created an account called tony.

The host is behind a Sonicwall.

Ok.. I double checked and I have port 80 wide open in and out on the firewall.  You could not telnet because I have it blocked on all my servers.  I'm watching the firewall logs now and this is what I show.. trying to load a 6000 byte file, it hangs up at 60.

# Source IP  Source Port  Destination IP  Destination Port  Protocol  Src Interface  Dst Interface  Tx Bytes  Rx Bytes  
1 66.210.47.156 32787 66.210.130.9 53 UDP OPT WAN 146 327 
2 66.210.47.156 42404 69.20.65.142 80 TCP OPT WAN 112 60 


.156 is my server, the .9 is the dns lookup, and the .142 is where the image is.

>You could not telnet because I have it blocked on 
>all my servers. 
How did you do it?

>trying to load a 6000 byte file, it hangs up at 60.
.. which can hardly be PHP problem.

Ok, its being blocked by the firewall.. however I still confused at why.  Port 80 is wide open and fsockets work fine.

$location = "www.google.com";
$fp = fsockopen($location, 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
$out = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$out .= "Host: ".$location."\r\n";
$out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
fwrite($fp, $out);
while (!feof($fp)) {
    $result .= fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose($fp);
print $result;

That works fine

$location = "http://www.google.com";
$result = file_get_contents($location);

That does not work.  Does file_get_contents() use anything other than port 80 for http requests??

>Does file_get_contents() use anything other than port 80 for http requests??
No, of course it does not.
But it uses HTTP/1.0 and I have no idea how exactly your firewall filters the data.

I just change the fsocket example to 

$out = "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n";

It still works fine.  What method does the wrapper use?  Does it literally open a socket just like fsocketopen would?

Let's try another route.
Please try to run the same code on a machine, which is 100% NOT behind a firewall and see if it works for you.

Yes, it works without the firewall.  That is why I agreed with you in my earlier post.  However, my question is now about fsocketopen vs fopen.. what is the actual code that drives file_get_contents()?  There is obviously something differnt in the headers that my firewall doesn't like.. how do I see what headers php is sending?

Use a sniffer. tcpdump, for example.

Ok, I finally go ahold of sonic wall tech support and they have resolved the issue.  Maybe you can help me understand what this means.

She had me uncheck a box in the internal settings of the firewall labled "Enforce Host Tag Search with for CFS" and suddently everything works.  She rambled off something about header packet size being limited to 32.. but lost me from there.

With that information, can you tell me what fsocketopen and fopen would be sending differently to change the header response?

>She had me uncheck a box in the internal settings of the
>firewall labled "Enforce Host Tag Search with for CFS" 
>and suddently everything works. 
So this is the answer to the question why fsockopen() worked.
As I said, PHP uses HTTP/1.0 for http streams by default and "Host: " header is required only by HTTP/1.1.

I've got the error when I use this
```
D:\Folder>php -r 'file_get_contents("http://packagist.org/p/symfony/var-dumper%24ea3512377b773427554949beddf0ed0f9a6c6f43ba6069419cde361083f78a3c.json");'

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected end of file in Command line code on line 1
```

And everything is well if I replace quotes
```
D:\Folder>php -r "file_get_contents('http://packagist.org/p/symfony/var-dumper%24ea3512377b773427554949beddf0ed0f9a6c6f43ba6069419cde361083f78a3c.json');"
```

What is the problem?

@spargo32: This is a bug reporting system, not a support forum. http://www.php.net/support.php But I will say that Windows' cmd.exe does not support quoting arguments with apostrophes.

I AM facing the below issue , only with .pdf https links ,and i am searching from long time , but still i didnt find any solution .
Can i have some one help regarding this case .

Error:
failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!

Source Code :

	$download_link = 'https://www.aramex.com/docs/default-source/resourses/resourcesdata/shipping-services-api-manual.pdf';
 
	// Download File Content
	$file_data = file_get_contents($download_link,1,NULL);
              
 
	// Create File
	$handle = fopen($file_name, 'w');
	fclose($handle);
 
	// Save Content to file
	$downloaded = file_put_contents($file_name, $file_data);
	if($downloaded > 0)
	{
		echo  'file was successfully downloaded! <br>' ;
    }