From: sarvesh_borkar at yahoo dot co dot in Operating system: FreeBSD PHP version: 5.2.0 PHP Bug Type: Filesystem function related Bug description: fopen is not opening external urls but opening local files
Description: ------------ The following code is used to fetch the news from rss and read that news into the variable and the xml parsing and all that stuff. This code works fine on PHP Version 4.3.11 and system:Linux web147.opentransfer.com 2.6.14.7 #1 Fri Sep 8 11:12:28 CDT 2006 i686 but fails on PHP Version 5.1.6 system :FreeBSD pro29.abac.com 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Nov 13 17:47:40 PST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/obj/usr/src/sys/PRO6 i386 Reproduce code: --------------- //below url is dynamic through database $url="http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml"; $fp=fopen($url,"rb") or die("file not opened") ; do { $data = fread($fp, 8192); if (strlen($data) == 0) { break; } $simple .= $data; } while(true); fclose($fp); Expected result: ---------------- we expect to see the news in formatted manner which is working fine on PHP Version 4.3.11 Actual result: -------------- file not opened -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=39841&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39841&r=mysqlcfg