Hello all, Thanks for your help in advance!
I am using the code found at http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=80200&topic=11364 I am interacting with requests a user sends in. I check first if the address entered was geogached, and if not, I attempt to take each term of the address, and ask google (with a 3 second delay between each term) if that particular term is valid. Thus I arrive at the largest concatenated string possible that is a 'valid' address by google. The reason i do this on a term basis, and not on a full address basis, is that the user may enter a restaurant name (which would return an error reaching out to the maps.google.com/ geo url as it's not a valid address). i think this might not be important though but I felt i'd add it. So "applebees main street anytown, NJ" i'd arrive at google telling me "main street anytown, NJ" is valid. At any rate, What I notice is about 45% of the time I get an error: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! and then the xml doc cannot load the external entity. If i try again, and again, (maybe 2-3 times) it'll work and i'll get the address I wanted. I understand the php.ini file contains the entry for allow_url_fopen, however I turned this on (and if it was off, it would never work i believe as opposed to partially) one important thing I want to mention is that I was initially using curl for this operation, and i was randomly getting the same problem (where it wouldn't return me a result). It's weird, i've tried both CSV and XML format for google and randomly it just fails. Any suggestions i'm completely out of ideas on how to 100% of the time ensure I get a 200 back from google (If i just try this manually from a browser it works all the time). Thanks so much i'm so frustrated! Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
