After some investigation, I noticed that line 39 of /forums/admin/test_stopforumspam.php was pointing to an IP address that was blocked by www.stopforumspam.com / us.stopforumspam.org and kept coming up as "You do not have permission to view this directory or page."

http://stopforumspam.com/ipcheck/91.186.18.61

OLD:
Quote
Stop Forum Spam Query
API status: Can't connect
Code
$xmlResult = @file_get_contents("http://www.stopforumspam.com/api?ip=91.186.18.61");

I replaced the IP address with one that I knew was not being blocked by StopForumSpam. After that, I had no problem connecting.

Replace the "x.x.x.x" with your website's IP address.
http://stopforumspam.com/ipcheck/x.x.x.x

NEW:
Quote
Stop Forum Spam Query
API status: Can connect
Code
$xmlResult = @file_get_contents("http://www.stopforumspam.com/api?ip=x.x.x.x");

I don't recall whether the 91.186.18.61 address was supposed to be returned as a blocked IP or not. If someone could shed some light on to what 91.186.18.61 is and why it was chosen to be the static IP address included in 7.5.7, that would be very helpful.

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In addition www.stopforumspam.com should instead point to their mirror server at us.stopforumspam.org as per the post @ http://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5304

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