Title: Amazing plugin causing problem
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Amazing plugin causing problem

 *  Resolved [leopardman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leopardman/)
 * (@leopardman)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-causing-problem/)
 * Does anyone know how to solve this issue:
 * “Warning: simplexml_load_file([http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/ThePIOJuba/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile](http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/ThePIOJuba/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&client=ytapi-youtube-profile))[
   function.simplexml-load-file]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/
   1.0 403 Forbidden in /…/wp-content/plugins/youtube-sidebar-widget/youtube-sidebar-
   widget.php on line 51”

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 *  Plugin Author [srcoley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srcoley/)
 * (@srcoley)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-causing-problem/#post-2205685)
 * Check out this thread:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-youtube-sidebar-widget-plugin-youtube-sidebar-widget-allow_url_fopen-being-off-breaks?replies=2](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-youtube-sidebar-widget-plugin-youtube-sidebar-widget-allow_url_fopen-being-off-breaks?replies=2)
 * We will be updating the plugin soon so that it uses cURL instead of fopen, which
   would solve these problems.
 *  Plugin Author [srcoley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srcoley/)
 * (@srcoley)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-causing-problem/#post-2205819)
 * The plugin has been updated and now fully utilizes curl instead of simplexml_load_file.
   This will resolve the problem you’ve been having.

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 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/youtube-sidebar-widget_221e1f.svg)
 * [Youtube Sidebar Widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/youtube-sidebar-widget/)
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 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/youtube-sidebar-widget/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/youtube-sidebar-widget/reviews/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [srcoley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srcoley/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazing-plugin-causing-problem/#post-2205819)
 * Status: resolved