Connection timed out when using xml-api

[dom974]

Hello folks,

I've been trying to use the xml-api functions for a couple of weeks now.

It appears the fsockopen functions timed out randomly. Sometimes it works like a charm a dozen times and then suddenly it stops, and put a connection timed out error

I tried loading the page on several computers, same issues. There's no firewall so this is not a port issue.

I don't know how to trace a socket connection, otherwise I may look more precisely where the connection breaks. One thing I'm sure, there's nothing on the login logs so the connection stops before...

Can someone help me figure this out ?
thanks !

dominique

[cPanelDavidG]

Is the script located on the same server as the WHM interface the API is attempting to interface with (localhost) or another server?

[dom974]

It is located on another server,
I did a netstat -an and it shows cpanel listening for all ips on port 2082 2083
I still don't know where the issue is ...

[cPanelDavidG]

It is located on another server,
I did a netstat -an and it shows cpanel listening for all ips on port 2082 2083
I still don't know where the issue is ...

What about port 2086 (if using HTTP) or 2087 (if using HTTPS) which are used by the XML-API?

[dom974]

What about port 2086 (if using HTTP) or 2087 (if using HTTPS) which are used by the XML-API?

Sorry I meant 2086 and 2087 of course ...
I just updated php and apache to make sure this is not a LAMP issue but no ...

Do you have an exemple of getting the xml stream by using something else than fsockopen() maybe ?

Thanks

Dominique

[cPanelDavidG]

Sorry I meant 2086 and 2087 of course ...
I just updated php and apache to make sure this is not a LAMP issue but no ...

Do you have an exemple of getting the xml stream by using something else than fsockopen() maybe ?

Thanks

Dominique

fsockopen() is the fastest method I am aware of to interface with the API with PHP. Using file_get_contents() will take more processor time, but you can find a very crude example with file_get_contents() instead of fsockopen() at:

http://forums.cpanel.net/showpost.ph...0&postcount=14

[dom974]

Doh, still the same "connection timed out" issue

Is there any possibility to trace the socket opening and closing ?

Dominique

[cPanelDavidG]

Doh, still the same "connection timed out" issue

Is there any possibility to trace the socket opening and closing ?

Dominique

According to http://us.php.net/fsockopen you can customize the timeout setting. Perhaps you may want to try that as a kludge to see if you can get the script working?

[dom974]

Already tried timeout setting (increased) didn't do anything.

BUT ... but ... I may have fixed it finally using Curl !

My code (could be useful to someone else):

$url = "http://$user:$pass@$theServer:2086$apiPath";
$url=str_replace('&','&',$url);
$ch=curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

And then I do a stream to array conversion.

It has been working quite well for the last 20 minutes, no error yet


UPDATE : I talked too fast ... stille the same errors :'(

UPDATE 2 : when I do a netstat -an I see that my connections stay in SYN_RECV state :
tcp 0 0 91.121.73.71:2086 213.246.42.38:48272 SYN_RECV

Anyone knows why my packet stops at this state ?


Dominique