[PHP] PHP Failing to open remote files using include/require

[Mark Cooke]

Hi,
I have a server hosted by a company running Win2k, they are in charge of 
the maintainance, and we had a site working fine, then yesterday, it 
failed to include any files using http:// using:
include ("http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']."/dir/somefile.php");

The code has not been altered in 2 weeks, and as mentioned it was 
working the other day, all other php code and include works.

There is no firewall or other apps in place that is stopping the box 
from doing external calls, there is also not a DNS problem.

They are running php 4.3.2, and the php.ini has not been touched in 4 
months.

I've installed a quick test script, below:
* name and IP addresses have been changed *
[code]
echo "Test One: ";
include_once '../../test.txt';
echo "External Call using DNS: ";
include_once 'http://www.somesite.com/test.txt';
echo "External Call NOT using DNS: ";
include_once 'http://0.0.0.0/test.txt';
echo "<p>Using FOPEN with DNS: ";
$file = fopen ("http://www.somesite.com/test.txt";, "r");
if (!$file) {
   echo "<p>Unable to open remote file.\n";
   exit;
}
while (!feof ($file)) {
   $line = fgets ($file, 1024);
   echo $line;
}
fclose($file);
[/code]
This is the output:
Test One: --- a test file --- (This is ok)
External Call using DNS:
Warning: main(): Failed opening 'http://www.somesite.com/test.txt' for 
inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in 
D:\Inetpub\ftproot\somedir\dir\test.php on line 8

External Call NOT using DNS:
Warning: main(): Failed opening 'http://0.0.0.0/test.txt' for inclusion 
(include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in 
D:\Inetpub\ftproot\somedir\dir\test.php on line 12

Using FOPEN with DNS: --- a test file --- (This is ok)
This is driving me mad, as scripts do not just stop working like this,
it would seem to me, that some MS patch or something else has changed on 
the serverthat is causing the problem.

Any help wwould be most appreiated.
Using the same code, it works on 3 development servers here (at work, 
using Win2k, Linux and Windows 2003), and they all run different 
versions of php.

Regards
Mark
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