url wrappers that dont support stat() wont work with is_readable()

[vlinder]

HTTP and HTTPS are atleast two wrappers that dont support the stat() function. Here are some referenses. (http://se.php.net/manual/en/wrappers.http.php)

To get the CFPropertyList to work with http-urls i had to comment out the is_readable line in CFPropertyList.php:189

//if(!is_readable($file)) throw IOException::notReadable($file);

From what i can tell it throws exceptions at all other file read locations anyway so is that line really necessary? Could you write around is_readable and use something else?

[rodneyrehm]

There is a function to parse a given string:

$source = file_get_contents( 'http://example.com/foobar.plist' );
$plist->parse( $source );

the load() method is for filesystem access only.