Domainwhois API Call returns nothing

[gknight]

I have done everything to get this working, but for some reason, I get absolutely NOTHING back from the server when I make the API calls. Here is the code that I have :

 

if(isset($_REQUEST['domaincheck']))
{
$response = checkDomain($_REQUEST['domaincheck']);
echo $response;
}

function checkDomain($domain)
{
$url = "https://www.domaintowhmcsdirectory.com/includes/api.php";
$username = "MyUsername";
$password = "MyPassword";

$postfields["username"] = $username;
$postfields["password"] = md5($password);
$postfields["action"] = "domainwhois";
$postfields["domain"] = $domain;

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); 
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 100);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
if(curl_exec($ch) == false)
	echo curl_error($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$data = explode(";",$data);
foreach($data as $temp) {
	$temp = explode("=",$temp);
	$results[$temp[0]] = @$temp[1];
}

if ($results["status"]=="available") {
	$response = "available";
} else {
	$response = "taken";
}

return $results["status"];
}

 

It worked just fine a couple of days ago and now it just doesn't work at all.

Any help would be appreciated.

[gknight]

I am actually getting a 404 for the api.php but if I type the url path in the browser it showes up with the expected ip error. So why can't the php script find it when calling it through curl?

[gknight]

Any help, PLEASE?.................

[gknight]

Ok. Lets go through this again. Maybe I am not clarifying what the problem is.

 

If you enter "http://www.darkknighthosting.com/members/includes/api.php" directly into your browser address bar, you get the expected error of "result=error;message=Invalid IP XX.XXX.XX.XXX;" (the X's being my IP address since I am copying and pasting from the browser). The function that uses the cURL call the that SAME URL is listed above. I changed some of the stuff for safety reasons but all that needed to be changed was the username and password really). But the function returns a $)$ Page Not Found in the browser stating that it is on http://www.darkknighthosting.com at the bottom of the default Apache 404 page and in the top it even says that "/members/includes/api.php" can not be found ont he server as pasted below.

 

Not Found

The requested URL /members/includes/api.php was not found on this server.

 

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

 

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Apache/2 Server at http://www.darkknighthosting.com Port 443

 

THIS is what I am not understanding. I KNOW cURL works just fine because it is used in a function just before this point to process a credit card using the exact same method. I could REALLY use some help on this one. I am way behind on this project because of this problem. Thanks in advance.

[gknight]

Oh yeah, I forgot to add in there, right after the line "$data = curl_exec($ch);", I added "echo $data;" to see what it was doing and that is how I get see the 404 error.

[gknight]

ok kill this thread. It is some kind of security thing that I can't find that made the api inaccessible through the main domain. had to use a work around.

[wiz]

how you fix it ? last March 23 my custom api functions stop working and the curl return nothing like yours.