Ok I was looking to see why dolphin was not communicating and found out that url was off so I asked my host provider to turn it on following is the response.
Hello Neil,
In our server allow_url_fopen is disabled. If enabled, allow_url_fopen allows PHP's file functions such as file_get_contents() and the include and require statements can retrieve data from remote locations, like an FTP or web site. Programmers frequently forget this and don't do proper input filtering when passing user-provided data to these functions, opening them up to code injection vulnerabilities. A large number of code injection vulnerabilities reported in PHP-based web applications are caused by the combination of enabling allow_url_fopen and bad input filtering.
Instead of this, you can use cURL, as tinyportal is a freebie script.
Some info about using cURL to pick up remote files can be found here:
http://www.codeandcoffee.com/2006/07/how-to-use-curl-with-php/
Some sample code is here:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php#55922
We switch off fopen because of lazy coding and customers not updating their scripts, most site hacks are due to a web server being able to use fopen to include remote files.
We had a lot of problems with this with one or two sites being hacked/defaced per day on our network, this upset the site owners and of course caused potential security issues on our servers.
Since we switched this off, these problems completely stopped, our servers became more stable/happy and our customers didn't have their sites hacked anymore.
It is better to use CURL, as a lot of hosts are turning off fopen due to the serious security risks.
Sorry we can't be of more help here but security has to come first, and the stability of our servers is our top priority.
Will Curl sort this problem out for me in Dolphin or would I be wasting my time?
Kind Regards
