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Advanced Error Handling - failed to open stream: Connection timed out
Hi Russell,
I have the form working perfectly, the database is attached, but I have run into a problem with "Advanced Error Handling".
In my form I have the lines:
<input type="hidden" name="bad_template" value="form-error.php" />
<input type="hidden" name="bad_url" value="http://www.domain.com/formmail/fmbadhandler.php" />
<input type="hidden" name="this_form" value="http://www.domain.com/form.php" />
In "formmail.php" I have the lines:
$TEMPLATEDIR = "/home/pub/www/w/i/www.domain.com/formmail/fmtemplates/";
In "fmbadhandler.php" I have the lines:
$TARGET_URLS = array("http://www.domain.com");
$TEMPLATEDIR = "/home/pub/www/w/i/www.domain.com/formmail/fmtemplates/";
The error page comes up with the missing form information and there is a link:
"You can return to the form to fix the errors."
Clicking on ..."return to the form"... causes a long wait before the message appears:
"
<p>Cannot open form URL: http://www.domain.com/form.php?USER_....0.6+%28ax%29: failed to open stream: Connection timed out</p>
I am so close, but for this error.
Looking at the link ..."return to the form"... the target is:
http://www.domain.com/formmail/fmbad...our+first+name etc. etc.
Please, can you help me?
Anthony
Re: Advanced Error Handling - failed to open stream: Connection timed out
Additional Information:
I created the small php file "php-info.php" containing the following:
<HTML>
<BODY>
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Opening in the browser gives the result:
PHP Version 5.0.4
and a lot more information besides. Is any of it useful to you?
Re: Advanced Error Handling - failed to open stream: Connection timed out
Hi,
This indicates that FMBadhandler had a problem opening the URL to your form.Connection timed out
There may be information in from phpinfo that helps, but it sounds more like a fault or restriction on your server.
Try the attached test script to see if opening URLs work.
If not, contact your hosting provider and show them the test script and ask them why it doesn't work.
Russell Robinson - Author of Tectite FormMail and FormMailDecoder
http://www.tectite.com/
Re: Advanced Error Handling - failed to open stream: Connection timed out
Hi Russel,
"testurlopen.php" produced the result:
PHP version is: 5.0.4
Safe mode is: Off (this is good!)
URL open succeeded!
What is the next step? Would the complete output from "phpinfo" be helpful?
Re: Advanced Error Handling - failed to open stream: Connection timed out
Hi,
Well, that indicates it's going to be a tough problem to solve. Mostly, people use PHP 4, so maybe it's something to do with PHP 5.
The only thing that springs to mind is something to do with sessions. However, if you're using recent versions of FormMail and FMBadHandler, that shouldn't be a problem.
We haven't moved to PHP 5 yet, so we'll probably need to do that to replicate and solve the problem.
Russell Robinson - Author of Tectite FormMail and FormMailDecoder
http://www.tectite.com/
Re: Advanced Error Handling - failed to open stream: Connection timed out
I shall remove the "fmbadhandler.php" for the time being and use a message asking the visitor to click the "Back" button with a javascript "Back" button for good measure.
It works for me, the data already entered is remembered, however, it might not work for everyone.
I shall revisit this problem another time.
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