note 13020 modified in function.curl-exec by vrana

If you retrieve a web page and print it (so you can see it in your browser), and the page has an expiration, this expiration now applies to MyProgram.php and next time your program/page is called, even if it's grabbing a different web page, it will show what it just displayed. In Netscape you can get rid of this by going into Edit, Options, Advanced, Cache, and clear out the Disk Cache. But this is really annoying after short order. The following prevents the above scenario: <?php function GetCurlPage ($pageSpec) { $ch = curl_init($pageSpec); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $tmp = curl_exec ($ch); curl_close ($ch); // if you intend to print this page, better clear out expiration tag $tmp = preg_replace('/(?s)<meta http-equiv="Expires"[^>]*>/i', '', $tmp); return $tmp; } ?> --was-- If you retrieve a web page and print it (so you can see it in your browser), and the page has an expiration, this expiration now applies to MyProgram.php and next time your program/page is called, even if it's grabbing a different web page, it will show what it just displayed. In Netscape you can get rid of this by going into Edit, Options, Advanced, Cache, and clear out the Disk Cache. But this is really annoying after short order. The following prevents the above scenario: function GetCurlPage ($pageSpec) { $ch = curl_init($pageSpec); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $tmp = curl_exec ($ch); curl_close ($ch); // if you intend to print this page, better clear out expiration tag $tmp = preg_replace('/(?s)<meta http-equiv="Expires"[^>]*>/i', '', $tmp); return $tmp; } http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-exec.php