On Tuesday 28 December 2004 20:03, Ewout de Boer wrote:
> $data =
> file_get_contents("http://somehost.com/xmlonl.asp?custid=000000&prodid=0000
>0 ");
>
> if ($data)
> {
> ...
>
>
> the string this function returns is the webpage from the default website of
> the server where this php code is running at and not the data from the
> remote site (which is not on the same server).
Have you tried other URLs? With and without a query string? Could you give a
_real life_ example of a URL that doesn't work?
> i tried the url from my shell on the server using telnet and it gets the
> data i expected.
>
> I can't figure out why php is getting the wrong results while telnet on the
> same host gets the correct data. Is this a (known) error with php or is it
> a apache/php/server configuration problem ?
One possible explanation as to why it doesn't work within PHP but works with
something else is that the target site looks at the user-agent in the request
header and if it finds something it doesn't like (eg PHP) then it redirects
the request to http://localhost/ or something. That way the target site hopes
to prevent bots from harvesting its data.
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