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Bug #9846 fopen() fails and gives Error 0 on NoContent URLs
Submitted: 2001-03-19 16:56 UTC Modified: 2001-12-15 08:29 UTC
From: bloch at incrementalimages dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Filesystem function related
PHP Version: 4.0.4pl1 OS: linux,irix,tru64
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2001-03-19 16:56 UTC] bloch at incrementalimages dot com 
This bug might belong in the URL-related section.
I believe it to be a generic problem.

If you fopen() an URL
that returns with an HTTP Header of NoContent (204),
fopen() will fail with Error 0.

Failure would be ok if there was a specific error
code for NoContent URLs.  Either that or returning
a handle that was already at eof would suffice.
As it is now, there's no way to tell the difference
between a bad (NotFound) URL and a NoContent URL.

Work-around it to use cURL to a temporary file
and check the HTTP_CODE with the undocumented
curl_getinfo() function.  Of course, it seems
a little weird to require the temporary file 
for a NoContent URL.  But it works fine.

-Eric Bloch
bloch@incrementalimages.com

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 [2001-10-29 02:35 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Taken from #9847, these are basically the same problem:

    When fopen()-ing an URL that responds
    with an HTTP 403 Forbidden, fopen()
    fails with an Error 0.   There is no
    way to distinguish this error from
    a 'Not Found' type of error.

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 [2001-11-23 18:03 UTC] venaas@php.net 
Doesn't the contents of $http_response_header tell you
what you need? $http_response_header should be an array
of the HTTP response fopen() got
 [2001-12-15 08:29 UTC] sander@php.net 
No feedback. Closing.
 
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