[wp-forums] Accessing external sites

[esmi at quirm dot net]

on 28/06/2012 23:57 Otto said the following:
> No, this guy is having a hostname-resolution problem. Basically, his
> server either doesn't have DNS set up, or it's firewalled or
> something.

That's my gut instinct too but the hosts claim no firewall and that they 
can ping something (we're not sure what).

> The allow_url_fopen setting is not required, nor desirable. If the PHP
> install has curl enabled, that would be used instead.

So ideally, you need cUrl enabled, yes?

Mel
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