Unable to submit an Italian URL

[motowebmaster]

Brian,

The Moto Guzzi - Italy website isn't being allowed. I've tried it on my site, and here in your live demo:

http://www.motoguzzi.it

[Brian]

Looks like the 'fsockopen' function doesn't like the site for some reason... Admin CP=> vBa Links Directory => Main Options => Remote Site Function - Try changing that setting to CURL and see if you get any better results.

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[motowebmaster]

On one of my former sites, I had it set to fsockopen. Don't remember why though.

Regardless, I changed it to CURL and the error message was the same. I have CURL installed on my server, and use it for some maintenance functions driven by shell scripts.

I had to change the vbalinks setting back to fsockopen because it wouldn't validate Kawasaki's website using CURL:

http://www.kawasaki.com

I probably could allow PHP access to CURL, but would prefer not to. Can you investigate this further?

[Brian]

CURL is the recommended option since it's generally much faster and can do a better job of checking than the fsockopen() function. fsockopen() can also be limiting in handling redirects and other things that CURL doesn't have a problem with. If you don't want to use CURL then you could also disable the 'Verify New Links' setting to prevent that check from being performed.