ex f2s wants to be able to fetch news from a website....

Junior WebHelper Joined: 21 Mar 2002 Posts: 1

It was Ok when a free host....
Now the restrictions should be removed....
I am able from a free host to fetch the news from a site on the web....
Not from f2s....
I find it totally annoying...

Just a little fetcher from evil walrus I think
$site = "http://mobile.theonion.com/index.html";
$open = fopen($site, "r");
$search = fread($open, 50000);
fclose($open);
etc....

Error Message:
The system was unable to communicate with the server

Ladies and gentlemen what is your comment on this ?

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

Phone F2S if you are in the UK.

or email nick@freedom2surf.net and chris@freedom2surf.net

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Yeah, I thought that restriction only applied to free accounts... At least that's what I thought, but maybe that was just to encourage you to pay Smile

WebHelper Joined: 08 Jan 2002 Posts: 69 Location: Ireland

Well, remember F2S had that proxy & firewall installed. It's unlikely that it would remove the security restrictions after the free accounts went.

Just get in contact with the staff & I'm sure that they will punch open a hole in the firewall for you.

Garth Farley