Web based plugin/theme problems

you found that where?

here?

http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/User:Hakre/Technical_Installation

re: web drone,

that is a page created by some guy .. (anyone can edit the codex) and i’m guessing he’s the one that would need to explain his language, but I can give you a pretty good idea..

the upgrades use the Snoopy HTTP class.

What is Snoopy?

Snoopy is a PHP class that simulates a web browser. It automates the
task of retrieving web page content and posting forms, for example.

Some of Snoopy’s features:

* easily fetch the contents of a web page
* easily fetch the text from a web page (strip html tags)
* easily fetch the the links from a web page
* supports proxy hosts
* supports basic user/pass authentication
* supports setting user_agent, referer, cookies and header content
* supports browser redirects, and controlled depth of redirects
* expands fetched links to fully qualified URLs (default)
* easily submit form data and retrieve the results
* supports following html frames (added v0.92)
* supports passing cookies on redirects (added v0.92)

snoopy uses fsockopen.

Im guessing that on hosts that dont have fsockopen, that wordpress falls back to the standard ftp method.

create a phpinfo file, and see if you have fsockopen enabled. you probably dont.

my bad — that wont work. edit that phpinfo file and put this in it:

<?php
if(function_exists('fsockopen')) {
echo "fsockopen yay";
}
else {
echo "fsockopen nay";
}
?>