AUSPOST Error

[ALFO]

Hi All

A potential customer just emailed me (great when they just dont give up) and let me know the Auspost shipping options were returning an error at checkout.

I have been through the process myself with my test account so I no it was working.

ANyone else having problems? I notied that o 4th September 2006 AusPost did some new pricing on their online calculator, maybe they changed something?

ALFO

[ALFO]

Bump as still not working and not sure why.

Have even managed the upgrade to 1.3.5 in the mean time

[reuben]

Hi Adrian

I've sent you an email about this.
Ausweb have made some security changes that have broken the AusPost module.

Reuben

[reuben]

Let's be more specific about this.

Line 81 of the AusPost Module tries to execute this code:

$url = http://drc.edeliver.com.au/ratecalc.asp?Pickup_Postcode=$frompcode&Destination_Postcode=$topcode&Country=AU&Weight=$sweight&Service_Type=STANDARD&Height=$sheight&Width=$swidth&Length=$slength&Quantity=$shipping_num_boxes";
$myfile = file($url);

and produces this error:

[Tue Sep 5 20:09:03 2006] [error] PHP Warning: file(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /includes/modules/shipping/auspost.php on line 81

Why?
Because AusWeb have set:

allow_url_fopen = off

Real nice of them. Anyway the question to all you PHP gurus is:

Is there another way we can make this reference to drc.edeliver.com.au without file() ? ie: can anyone think of a workaround?

regards,
Reuben

[Merlinpa1969]

I posted the answer in the other post,

[superprg]

I posted the answer in the other post,

I am interested in knowing the solution
Can you give me the url?