I have a similar problem, except my perl script has NEVER been able to get anything at all. I have tried LWP::Simple, HTTP::Tiny, wget, and curl. None of them worked, not even once! I created a sample text file on another site and tried to fetch it using wget. And all it would do is say that it is downloading it, but then nothing got downloaded and all it gave me was an empty file. Every. Single. Time. HTTP::Tiny gave me an error message saying that it failed. ???

Since I am using a free perl hosting called Zettahost, I am wondering if it is possible maybe they do not let free users fetch web pages, or maybe it's a security issue and they don't want anyone to do that. I don't know. Maybe fetching web pages is a privilege that has not been granted to me. Is that possible? They use a Debian Linux server.

I tried to fetch website data using PHP, and it failed as well. So, there's got to be something with the server or the way it is configured. It's not letting me download anything! 


<?php

$fileHTML = file_get_contents('http://www.wzsn.net/');
$title = substr($fileHTML, strpos($fileHTML,'<TITLE>') + 7, strpos($fi
+leHTML,'</TITLE>') - (strpos($fileHTML,'<TITLE>') + 7));
echo $title;

?>

[download]

It says, "Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.wzsn.net/): failed to open stream: Connection refused in /srv/disk13/2468845/www/ildispaintings.com/xget.php on line 7"

In reply to Re: get() from website hangs by harangzsolt33
in thread get() from website hangs by jeffw_00

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