I don't entirely understand the scenario, but on PHP side, if fopen() URL access is disabled, your next port of call should be the curl family of functions. (Or, of course, activate URL access using the allow_url_fopen php. Ini option but it sounds like you can't do that.).
You can get around allow_url_fopen restrictions by using fsockopen. Here's a (rudimentary) implementation.
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