PHP FastCGI on SJSWS 6.1 SP8 prevents file_get_contents() to work

Question

Hi,
sorry to bother you again, but we discovered another problem with the FastCGI implementation and I just want to verify if someone else can reproduce that. A site is using file_get_contents() to gather information from the same site, but a different PHP file, and display it on the screen.
I tried both PHP 4.4.7 and 5.2.4 and the problem is always present.
file a.php contains:
<?php
$url="http://servername/b.php";
$file = file_get_contents($url);
echo $file;
?>file b.php contains:
<?
print "Hello World!";
?>Expected result is to see "Hello World!" when browsing http://servername/a.php.
Actual result is: "Warning: file_get_contents(http://servername/b.php) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! in /www/servername/a.php on line 3".
It works correctly with the browser if I point "a.php" to a "b.php" located on another website, configured with FastCGI or NSAPI. It also works correctly on the PHP command line if the "b.php" is located on the same website or another website.
With NSAPI PHP, it works perfectly from the browser or the command line, to the same website or another one.
I'll post that bug to the PHP site, but I would like to know if I'm not the only one with that bug.

Answer 1

I can't speak to WS6.1 (I'm no longer running it), but WS7.0u1 with PHP 5.2.5-dev (built from the tip to work around another PHP bug) I see "Hello world!" after running the test.
PHP is compiled with:
'./configure' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-force-cgi-redirect' '--with-gettext' '--enable-fastcgi' '--with-zlib' '--with-jpeg-dir' '--with-gd' '--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql/include/'My php.rc looks like:
session.bug_compat_42 = Off
session.bug_compat_warn = Off
magic_quotes_gpc = Off
memory_limit = 128M
post_max_size = 128M
upload_max_filesize = 128M
fastcgi.logging = true
log_errors = on
error_log = /export/WS7/https-www/logs/php_errors
error_reporting = E_ALL
; Maybe this can keep PHP from eating all my resources
max_execution_time = 30
set_time_limit = 300
include_path = /usr/local/lib/php
extension_dir=/export/WS7/third-party/php/