PHP catch failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

Question

I am trying to do the following.

When I try to access a service using oAuth, if I get an error, because I am using a wrong key, I want to not show the error messages, but instead send the user to the authentication page.

However using a try catch fn does not work.

This is my code:

$url = 'https://api.soundcloud.com/me.json?'.http_build_query(array(
        'oauth_token' => $token,
    ));
    //
    try{
        $user = json_decode(file_get_contents($url));
        return array(
            'uid' => $user->id,
            'nickname' => $user->username,
            'name' => $user->full_name,
            'location' => $user->country.' ,'.$user->country,
            'description' => $user->description,
            'image' => $user->avatar_url,
            'urls' => array(
                'MySpace' => $user->myspace_name,
                'Website' => $user->website,
            ),
        );
    }
    catch(Services_Soundcloud_Invalid_Http_Response_Code_Exception $e)
    {
        log_message('error', 'EXCEPTION: '.$e);
        return FALSE;
    }

I want this to either return the user array or FALSE.

Any ideas?

You try block is most likely NOT throwing that big long ugly exception. Since you're catching only that SPECIFIC exception, any other exception will just proceed on its way. — Marc B, Sep 10 '12 at 03:30
may this help you http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9574130/file-get-contents-failed-to-open-stream-http-request-failed-http-1-1-404-not — Arpit Srivastava, Sep 10 '12 at 03:32
It seems to be working with Exception $e now, I tried it before with not luck. Maybe it was cached or something. Thanks anyway, can you post it as an answer? — Lukas Oppermann, Sep 10 '12 at 03:55

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

5

You can take a look here for catching file_get_content error

How can I handle the warning of file_get_contents() function in PHP?

That offers different solutions like looking at the response header

$content = @file_get_contents("http://www.google.com");
if (strpos($http_response_header[0], "200")) { 
   echo "SUCCESS";
} else { 
   echo "FAILED";
}

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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PHP catch failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

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