failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

[basball]

failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in

what causes this, it has happend only once thus far. i suspect it is a connection issue with my server and the target server i'm requesting data from. using iis 5.0 and latest release of php. are there changes to my ini file that i could make to create a retry attempt without spitting up code on my php site. any help would be appreciated.

 

[Bastien]

You could write some code to test the connection (via sockets maybe) to attempt to open the page and if closed have it fail more gracefully...

Bastien

Cat, the other other white meat

 

[basball]

great idea, could you demonstrate with an example, just to get me started. thanks.

 

[Bastien]

function is_connected()
{
	//check to see if the local machine is connected to the web
	//uses sockets to open a connection to apisonline.com
	$connected = @fsockopen("[URL unfurl="true"]www.mysite.com",[/URL] 80);
	if ($connected){
		$is_conn = true;
		fclose($connected);
	}else{
		$is_conn = false;
	}
	return $is_conn;
	
}//end is_connected function

Bastien

Cat, the other other white meat