RE: [PHP] Useragent and file [SOLN]

Hi I found an alternative to using file to get web content. using fsockopen you can specify a useragent as per rfc-something which handles it all very very nicely. Its also nicer that what I was using to post and is looking more likely to store cookies/sessions... but ill get to that later :) thanks to anyone who thought about replying :) Maybe this discovering might help someone else also, hence my post. Later, Todd. > -----Original Message----- > From: Todd Pasley [mailto:toddp@kjross.com.au] > Sent: Friday, 30 August 2002 6:19 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Useragent and file > > > Hi > > Im using file() to get the contents of a webpage. e.g > > // get a web page into an array > $fcontents= file ($targeturl); > > However I dont know how to mimic a different useragent. Using > LWP::UA (in perl) i can pretend to be iexplore6 running on win2k > or anything i want.. Is there a way i can do this in PHP? > > By changing the useragent will this also resolve problems with > javascript?, I'd like the target server to think that I can view/run it. > > Thanks heaps, > > Todd. >