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Bug #1682 file() and fread() still not working on http://server
Submitted: 1999-07-08 20:59 UTC Modified: 1999-07-10 16:58 UTC
From: simon at airdmhor dot gen dot nz Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Misbehaving function
PHP Version: 3.0.11 OS: Linux RH6, 2.2.5-22 kernel
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1999-07-08 20:59 UTC] simon at airdmhor dot gen dot nz 
Even with the latest version of PHP, the socket stuff seems a bit broken. Code that used to work fine (on 3.0.6?) remains broken.

eg:
$url = "http://www.php.net/";

// this works
readfile($url);

// this works
$fh=fopen($url,"r");
fpassthru($fh);

// doesn't work for some sites (yes, I know it's an array)
$foo=file($url);                      

// doesn't work for some sites - incomplete result
// consistant location. 
// eg $url="http://bugs.php.net/manual/"
$fh=fopen($url,"r");
$foo=fgets($fh,100000);
close($fh);

They all work fine if $url is set to a local file. Other tools on the same machine (lynx,netscape,wget) can all access the URLs fine.

My PHP is compiled as an apache module, with track-vars, gd, sybase-ct, postgres, and xml; all of which seem to work fine.

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 [1999-07-08 21:12 UTC] simon at airdmhor dot gen dot nz 
Even with the latest version of PHP, the socket stuff seems a bit broken. Code that used
to work fine (on 3.0.6?) remains broken.

eg:
$url = "http://www.php.net/";

// this works
readfile($url);

// this works
$fh=fopen($url,"r");
fpassthru($fh);

// doesn't work for some sites (yes, I know it's an array)
$foo=file($url);                      

// doesn't work for some sites - incomplete result
// consistant location. 
// eg $url="http://bugs.php.net/manual/"
$fh=fopen($url,"r");
$foo=fread($fh,100000);
close($fh);

They all work fine if $url is set to a local file. Other tools on the same machine
(lynx,netscape,wget) can all access the URLs fine.

My PHP is compiled as an apache module, with track-vars, gd, sybase-ct, postgres, and xml;
all of which seem to work fine.
 [1999-07-08 21:26 UTC] simon at airdmhor dot gen dot nz 
(hmmm, I expected it to overwrite my initial bugreport)
That last change was correcting a typo where
   "$foo=fgets($fh,100000);"
should have read
   "$foo=fread($fh,100000);"
 [1999-07-10 13:07 UTC] sas at cvs dot php dot net 
Recompile and let us know whether it works now:

$ cd php-3.0.11/functions
$ wget -O fsock.c http://cvs.php.net/cvsweb.cgi/functions/fsock.c?rev=1.124
 [1999-07-10 16:58 UTC] sas at cvs dot php dot net 
fixed in CVS
 
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