AppStore Links – product not found

I posted some of this at the end of a supposedly resolved issue thread.

I recently installed the Appstore Links plugin. I cannot get it to work it just outputs “Artikel wurde nicht gefunden” in place of the called data.

The developer suggests a number of things including allow_url_fopen =on. Most hosts will not allow this and and this kind of url collection is weak compared to Curl.

I have tried in php.ini and .htaccess but it doesn’t overide the server settings in .htaccess it gives a 500 error

I guess this is because allow_url_fopen is supposed to be an injection security risk.

Will it be impossible for me to get this plugin to work? Should i give up now, is there an alternative