apache php and fopen

very slow

[dramstore]

Hi,

Wonder if anyone has had this problem, it's taken me all weekend to track this down, but finally got it to this stage:

I now have a file called a.php in my Linux server website root directory - nothing else in it but:

<?php
echo time() ;
$fp = @fopen("http://www.a-website-feed.com/feed.xml","r");
echo time() ;
?>

when I access www.mysite.com/a.php from IE - it takes about 25 seconds to complete.
On the server, when I go to the directory and run:
php a.php
it takes 2 seconds?

I guess its an apache/php problem. Has been working for ages now but suddenly causing problems.

Anyone any ideas?

Thanks

[dramstore]

just wondering - could it be possible that using via apache there is some dns problem, but not when run interactively?

[mcavic]

Good thinking, but I don't think so. There shouldn't be any difference in DNS or firewall access. I have no idea what the problem could be, though. You could change the URL to [127.0.0.1...] to eliminate network issues.

[dramstore]

Thanks for the idea.

The problem seems to have gone away for the time being, so I guess it must be some dns problem somewhere along the line as I have not changed anything on the machine, unless you can think of any other variable?

I will try that next time.

Thanks.