[Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect

Hi,

this error message comes from the search-engine-verify plugin, not from the sitemap generator plugin. I don’t know it but it looks like your host doesn’t allow php to connect to other websites.

My apologies Arnee – thanks for your reply.

I’ve a similar problem.

The generator seems can’t notifying Google, MSN and Ask and when I click on ‘debug’, I get this

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to https://www.google.com:80 in /hsphere/local/home/temporal/temporaldeideias.com/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on line 1158 Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to submissions.ask.com:80 in /hsphere/local/home/temporal/temporaldeideias.com/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on line 1158 Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to webmaster.live.com:80 in /hsphere/local/home/temporal/temporaldeideias.com/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on line 1158

What’s happening?

Thanks.

Ricardo.

Arne & temporaldeideias,

Temporaldeideias’s issue happened for us for our WP-hosting server that is behind a huge, honkin’ firewall/proxy. WordPress was attempting to go outside the firewall without the proper credentials (host and port)!

So, finally, we figured out to go into /wp-includes/class-snoopy.php and substitute these values:

var $proxy_host = "HERE"; // proxy host to use
var $proxy_port = "AND_HERE"; // proxy port to use

additionally, these values, if proxy requires user/pass. Not necessary for us.

var $proxy_user = "HERE"; // proxy user to use
var $proxy_pass = "AND_HERE"; // proxy password to use

After putting in the correct settings, we experienced NO MORE fsockopen errors!