Question:

I'm having trouble using Zend HTTP on a URL:

$client = new Zend_Http_Client('http://xxfire_killumiex.api.channel.livestream.com/2.0/info.json'); $feed = $client->request()->getBody();

For some reason, this gives me an error...

Invalid URI supplied

Whats wrong this this specific url?

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Whats wrong this this specific url?

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The underscore.

From RFC 1912

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Allowable characters in a label for a host name are only ASCII letters, digits, and the `-' character.

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<strong>Edit</strong>

After doing some more reading, it seems that Zend may be wrong in this case.

See <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2180465/can-someone-have-a-subdomain-with-an-underscore-in-it/2183140#2183140" rel="nofollow">Can (domain name) subdomains have an underscore "_" in it?</a>

According to <a href="http://www.zendframework.com/issues/browse/ZF-9671" rel="nofollow">ZF-9671</a>, you might be out of luck, though I've re-opened the issue.

My suggestion in the meantime; Create your own HTTP client class like this

class My_Http_Client extends Zend_Http_Client { public function validateHost($host = null) { if ($host === null) { $host = $this->_host; } // If the host is empty, then it is considered invalid if (strlen($host) === 0) { return false; } return true; } }