note 10692 modified in ref.curl by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Sun, 17 May 2009 19:49:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 10692 modified in ref.curl by danbrown | ||
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I used to download www pages to my script and one of the pages was different in MS explorer and
different, when I downloaded it. Namely, information, I was really interested in was missing. That
was because the server on the other bank of the river was looking at who is downloading the page.
Everything got fixed when I pretended I was MSIE. It is done with curl. Here is a function, that you
may use in similar situation
<?php
function download_pretending($url,$user_agent) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
return $result;
}
?>
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I used to download www pages to my script and one of the pages was different in MS explorer and
different, when I downloaded it. Namely, information, I was really interested in was missing. That
was because the server on the other bank of the river was looking at who is downloading the page.
Everything got fixed when I pretended I was MSIE. It is done with curl. Here is a function, that you
may use in similar situation
<?php
function download_pretending($url,$user_agent) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
return $result;
}
?>
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