sounds like you're in my boat, your host turns off the allow_url_fopen function for security reasons and supports cURL instead.
vBulletin has said they plan on integrating cURL in the future and Andreas has said this issue doesn't effect him so he doesn't plan on supporting cURL.
Here's a message about it from my webhost. (dreamhost)
Quote:
If you are currently using this (allow_url_fopen) functionality in your PHP code, there is a more powerful and flexible option available. PHP provides excellent support for curl library and its associated functions.
One of our own users has written a short article describing how it is
used and that can be found
here:
http://blog.unitedheroes.net/archives/p/1630/
The official PHP documentation for it is here:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php
This change will significantly improve the security of PHP-based applications running on our servers
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