It is possible that the site is rejecting the script since it is not a
browser. You can fake a browser by using the User-Agent header.
I am also going to take the liberty to suggest an alternate means to the
same end. If you are on a *nix system you can run the wget command to
connect to the site and retrieve the data. With the right options to
wget the user agent can be faked and the output be sent to stdout. Then
using output buffering you can capture the output to a string.
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-Original Message-
From: Mike Dunlop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 2:15 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] file_get_contents / url wrappers
Hi gang,
If i am trying to read the contents of url into a string and I am
getting 403 errors yet the page will load perfectly through a normal
browser, do u think the site is looking at the http request headers
and determining it's not a browser and thus blocking access? If
something like that was happening, does anyone know what headers i
should put into a request to simulate a browser?
error msg :: ... failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/
1.1 403 Forbidden in ...
Any info is much appreciated.
Thanks - MD
...
Mike Dunlop
Director of Technology Development
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