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Sjeiti Librarything | SURPI — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:24:25 +0000

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By: Sjeiti

Sjeiti — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:00:28 +0000

Yeah… eddies in the server I think… it’s up again

By: aircow33

aircow33 — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:52:53 +0000

hey I can’t seem to be able to download it off your website. it seems to be down.

By: aricow33

aricow33 — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:29:44 +0000

tried to download your widget. it seems to be down.

By: Sjeiti

Sjeiti — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:19:18 +0000

Oh wow, it seems to have fixed itself. That’s rare. Still, I should have a look at it one of these days.

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WP Plugins DB » Plugin Details » Sjeiti librarything widget — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:44:54 +0000

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By: Sjeiti

Sjeiti — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:23:53 +0000

Oh damned… it looks like the people at Librarything changed their js widget in a way that broke this plugin. That’s what you get when you have no api to your service :-p. I just checked and it’s nothing I can’t fix. Just have to find some time to find some smarter way to extract the content from the js (and have a look at curl while I’m at it).

By: Rich Lafferty

Rich Lafferty — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:42:34 +0000

For what it’s worth, url_fopen is usually off on shared hosting, because of the possibility of insertion attacks where attackers trick poorly-written software into opening a URL when the code intends to open a local file.

The usual workaround is to use the curl library instead — since it’s *only* for URL access, it avoids the problem of remote loading when local was expected and is thus typically enabled.

By: Sjeiti

Sjeiti — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:50:07 +0000

Heather, this is a security thing in php. If you’re on a local server you can switch it on in the php.ini file (look for allow_url_fopen). Otherwise there’s not really much you can do. Oh you can ask your hosting provider to turn it on, but I doubt they will. I’ll try to find some other ways to do the same thing, but I can’t promise anything.