[SOLVED] simplexml works on one host but not another. PHP xml directives are correct. Why?

Issue

The following code works on Host1

$url = "https://<redacted>";
$xml=simplexml_load_file($url);
$result = $xml->result;

On Host2 the following warning and notice are returned when using the exact same code:

Warning: simplexml_load_file(https:)failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /usr/www/users/...etc. Notice: Trying to get property 'result' of non-object in /usr/www/users...etc.

If I copy the url presented in the error message and paste it into a browser, it works correctly and the xml tree is returned.

On Host2 all xml directives are enabled and allow_url_fopen is enabled.

I do not have access to the server logs so cannot examine them but no errors are logged in the site error log.

I attempted using curl with the following code:

$cl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($cl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($cl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$contents = curl_exec($cl);
curl_close($cl);

if ($contents) return $contents;
else return FALSE;
print_r($contents);

but I then get a "service unavailable" error from the host server after the timeout period expires.

Solution

Seems likes you host is blocked by that website. You call many times with that url?

Check this one :

https://stackoverflow.com/a/34505846/11426374

Answered By - Abhishek Panchal