How to connect to REST server with fsockopen

[scoob19]

I have been trying unsuccessfully to connect to a REST server to get MLS data, pretty much all php scripts/classes use fsockopen to connect and I realized for some reason I can't even get the simple fsockopen function to connect.

$url = "rets17lax.raprets.com";  
$port=6103; 

$fp = fsockopen($url,$port,$errno,$errstr,30);
if (!$fp) {
      echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />n";
} else {   

        echo ' 
            Socket connection created to <strong>' . $url . '</strong> on port <strong>' . $port . '</strong> 
        '; 

}

Ive been told that the rest server is valid, is there something im doing wrong with the fsockopen function? I just cant seem to get it to connect. This is the error:
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsocko pen]: unable to connect to rets17lax.rapre ts.com:6103 (Connection refused)

Thanks!

[dlite922]

Check your firewall, I'm able to connect.

You must be having a network issue.

What do you get when you type in "telnet rets17lax.rapre ts.com 6103" on a command prompt on that PC?



Dan

[scoob19]

Thanks for the reply Dan. If it's a network issue, would the fsockopen script i copied and pasted still have problems if i upload it to the server? Here is where i uploaded those few lines of code to connect to the RETS server with fsockopen:

http://www.siderow.com/retslogin.php

I'm running Vista btw, and to answer your question when i type that into the command prompt on my PC, here is what i get:

HTTP/1.0 400 Bad request
Content-Type: text/html

<h2>Client sent a bad request.</h2>

Connection to host lost.

Thanks

[dlite922]

I was able to run your code as is.

C:\_www\test>php -q -f test.php

            Socket connection created to rets17lax.raprets.com on port 6103
C:\_www\test>

Looks like it runs on your server too at the URL you provided.

I only have the default PHP/MySQL package installed.


Dan