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phpfile-get-contents
J.K.A.
J.K.A.

Reputation: 7404

PHP- file_get_contents failed to open stream: Connection refused

I am using the following API for getting the country code using IP 

http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=' . $IP

Example: on Localhost

$IP = '202.71.158.30';

//pass the ip as a parameter for follow URL it will return the country

$country_code = file_get_contents('http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=' . $IP);

and its working fine here and showing the country code.

But it showing error on Server

Example:

$IP=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

$country_code = file_get_contents('http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=' . $IP);

Showing following error:

Warning: file_get_contents(http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=101.63.xx.xxx) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Connection refused in /srv/disk4/1322145/www/servername.in/app/header.php on line 12

Whats wrong with this?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 64238

Answers (5)

Qadees Javed
Qadees Javed

Reputation: 76

add optional parameter in file_get_contents using stream_context_create function to open stream connection valid.

$context = stream_context_create([
    'http' => ['protocol_version' => '1.1'],
]);

$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
var_dump($result);

Upvotes: 1

Developer Ali Usman
Developer Ali Usman

Reputation: 924

Use curl method instead of file_get_contents()

It does not work on localhost at google.com. Instead use other engine or use curl below:

Make a function or use inside the same function:

I prefer it to use in a function to avoid repetition in future.

$IP = '202.71.158.30';
$country_code = file_get_contents_fun('http://api.hostip.info/country.php? 
ip='.$IP);
public function file_get_contents_fun($url){
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,30);
    $content = curl_exec ($ch);
    curl_close ($ch); 
    return $content;
}

Upvotes: 4

Floris
Floris

Reputation: 3127

In my case the Fail2Ban extension in Plesk suddenly started IP-blocking the server that did the file_get_contents() requests. This is probably not going to be the issue, but I just wanted you to be aware of such a possibility.

Upvotes: 3

Pankaj Dadure
Pankaj Dadure

Reputation: 677

You can use CURL in place of file_get_contents()

<?php
    $IP = '202.71.158.30'; 
    $runfile = 'http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=' . $IP;

    $ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $runfile);

    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

    $content = curl_exec ($ch);

    curl_close ($ch); 

    echo $content;

Upvotes: 14

Amir
Amir

Reputation: 4111

Some servers do not permit accessing through IP address in your request. You can use CURL to prevent this problem.

Upvotes: 3

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