File_Get_Contents() Issue On Stevie

[wolstech]

PHP's file_get_contents() isn't working properly on Stevie. It's been working fine since I started hosting here, but just stopped yesterday. If I use file_get_contents() to retrieve something else that's on my own domain, it fails. It works fine if I request something not located on my domain, such as Google's website.

 

file_get_contents("http://raxsoft.tk/raxdev/sbt/sb.php?b=105");

That code should return an image, but instead returns false. A request where the target is on my own domain will fail. If you view the targeted URL in a browser, it loads fine, so the resource isn't the problem. This exact command worked yesterday, but now fails for an unknown reason.

 

file_get_contents("http://google.com") returns HTML for google as expected.

 

Here's a test script that shows the issue: http://raxsoft.tk/ra...sbt/testget.php If it works, you'll see an American flag with a countdown to July 4th next year. If it fails, it'll say so.

 

Anyone have an idea why this is happening? (raxsoft.tk, user rax on Stevie)

[Byron]

This would never return an image:

 

file_get_contents("http://raxsoft.tk/raxdev/sbt/sb.php?b=105");

 

It would try to return the contents. Evidently your browser was interpreting the source as the image.

Don't forget you need to echo it out:

 

<?php
$src = file_get_contents("http://raxsoft.tk/raxdev/sbt/sb.php?b=105");
echo $src;
?>

 

I just tried a couple of tests on my site and it was working fine.

 

 

[wolstech]

Well yes. I meant the contents of an image (binary data). It is echoed out. My test script is like yours, except it has an if statement to check that $src has data and not false in it. The problem is in my case the image content is never read. In your example code, $src is false(meaning the get failed) instead of the image data once the file_get_contents runs. Echoing false doesn't do anything useful...

 

I'll try a few other things, but I'm stumped as to why this just quit working on Friday...