failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable

[Aamit]

Hi,
I am trying to read the content of url.
when manually i put url in browser

link : http://www.mvnforum.com/mvnforum/viewmember?member=pbmissions
it opens.

but using code

$homepage = file_get_contents('http://www.mvnforum.com/mvnforum/viewmember?member=pbmissions');
echo $homepage;

Warning: file_get_contents( http://www.mvnforum.com/mvnforum/viewmember?member=pbmissions ) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable in C:\xampp\htdocs\test.php on line 2

What is problem ?
How to solve this?

[nileshgr]

Your server admin must have turned off fopen'ing of URLs.

Use cURL ( www.php.net/curl )

[Aamit]

extension=php_curl.dll
it's on (i.e. already remove ;)

CAn you please tell me what to do?

[nileshgr]

Post php.ini as attachment.

[Aamit]

Hi,
I posted php.ini as attachment.

To attach PHP.ini file it gives me error so i rename it to PHP-ini.php
and then upload.

Plz help me to solve this..

[digital-ether]

Hi, I am trying to read the content of url. when manually i put url in browser

link : http://www.mvnforum.com/mvnforum/viewmember?member=pbmissions it opens.

but using code

$homepage = file_get_contents('http://www.mvnforum.com/mvnforum/viewmember?member=pbmissions');
echo $homepage;

Warning: file_get_contents( http://www.mvnforum.com/mvnforum/viewmember?member=pbmissions ) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable in C:\xampp\htdocs\test.php on line 2

What is problem ? How to solve this?

There is nothing wrong with your code. It is just the response from the server:

HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable

That means that the server is unavailable. Usually this is a temporary error.

NB: if the allow_url_fope n setting is preventing http requests you'd get a: "http wrapper disabled etc.." error

[Aamit]

hi,

any other way to read the html of url??

[nileshgr]

damn it. What happened to me that day when I was answering this thread lol.

Aamit, Your code is correct, but the server's down. You take any method to read HTML of URL be it file_get_contents or cURL, it can't help if the server is down.

[Blitz-labs.com]

Thanks Man I have the same problem now I know what was wrong thanks a alot man.

[jawaadkhan]

Just pass user agent like this in your CURL param

$useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";

// set user agent
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);