XML.php took my site off line again

Not Good Boonex, Not Good At All.  When is this going to be fixed?

Go to admin panel > tools > host tools.

Check "php setup" under "Site optimization", if it is cgi - then you you will have problems with high server load.

More details here

I've had some problems with the RSS feeds in various places on the site. I've even had the forum widget on the homepage actually lock up my browser before. I tracked it back to get_rss_feed.php, and finally back to the bx_file_get_contents() function in utils.inc.php. I haven't had time to track through the code to find the exact problem (it's a cURL issue of some sort, and started with the upgrade to 7.0.7 or 7.0.8), but if I comment out the following block of code in utils.inc.php, everything starts to work perfectly for me:

    if(function_exists('curl_init')) {
       $rConnect = curl_init();
 
       curl_setopt($rConnect, CURLOPT_URL, $sFileUrl . $sParams);
       curl_setopt($rConnect, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
       curl_setopt($rConnect, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
       curl_setopt($rConnect, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
 
       $sAllCookies = '';
       foreach($_COOKIE as $sKey=>$sValue){
           $sAllCookies .= $sKey."=".$sValue.";";
      }
      curl_setopt($rConnect, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $sAllCookies);
 
       $sResult = curl_exec($rConnect);
     curl_close($rConnect);
  } else

So anyone with a CGI configured host, which a lot of shared hosts are using now, and some are using fcgi/suphp(fcgi-cgi) combo, and not a true 100% fast cgi configuration are out of luck.

You are saying they will have high server loads based on this particular setup?

If so that is a bit on the downside. I am guessing that means Boonex is not optimizing for shared hosting anymore then because the majority of shared hosts, at least at the moment are using a CGI setup.

I guess this shifts Dolphin into the VPS or Dedicated Server market once and for all.

Good to know...

You might need to update your recommended hosting setup to say apache handler or fast-cgi only then. Remove cgi/suphp, and/or setups with cgi/fcgi combos.

I believe that fcgi and/or fcgi-cgi are not affected, from my experience these setups working fine and fast, only CGI and suPHP(based on CGI) are affected. 

But this is not only Dolphin, every tiny script can bring server down with such ineffective server setup. Since most of the server resource are spent on loading PHP environment upon every request, but not the script logic execution.