On 01/03/06, tedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi gang: > > I have two *identical*l routines residing on two difference hosts -- > one works and the other doesn't. > > Please review (this works): > > http://www.webbytedd.com/examples/rank.php > > However, this doesn't: > > http://www.xn--ovg.com/rank.php > > Any idea as to what is wrong?
Yes. You're violating google's terms of service. From your script: Warning: fopen(http://www.google.com/search?client=navclient-auto&ch=61898169760&features=Rank&q=info:webbytedd.com): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden in /home/tedd/public_html/rank.php on line 124 From the page that gave you the HTTP 403 Forbidden response (surely that was a a bit of a clue?): > Forbidden > Your client does not have permission to get URL > /search?client=navclient-auto&ch=61898169760&features=Rank&q=info:webbytedd.com > from this server. (Client IP address: xx.xx.xx.xx) > > Please see Google's Terms of Service posted at > http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html From google's terms of service: > > You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system without > express permission in advance from Google. Note that "sending automated > queries" includes, among other things: > > * using any software which sends queries to Google to determine how a > website or webpage "ranks" on Google for various queries; -robin
