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user101289
Asked: 2012-06-01 13:24:11 +0800 CST

getaddrinfo(3) failed

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I'm trying to connect to a webservice using a PHP wrapper (which is using curl under the covers).

On my local linux machine running PHP 5.3 it works perfectly. However, when I move to a remote server (also running PHP 5.3 on Linux) the call the the webservice URL returns:

getaddrinfo(3) failed for http://server.host.com:8080/login

But when I issue a curl request from the command line, it returns the expected URL.

Can anyone shed any light on this issue?

Thanks!

php getaddrinfo curl

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    That's expected. The ping command accepts either an IP address or a hostname and not a URL. Same goes for getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() functions.

    curl works because it is supposed to work with URLs.

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