fopen on an URL with parameters

[dschreij]

Hi, could anybody give me some help with the following:

I'm trying to open a remote URL to be able to access it's contents:

$fp = fopen("http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22witte+zwanen%22,"r");

However, when I try to run this script. $fp returns false, and a warning "Result too large" is displayed.
This only occurs with urls that have any kind of parameters in them. If I open a random URL which doesn't have any parameters,
everything works fine, whatever size the requested file may be, so I don't think the warning is because the returned result
is too large, but that the problem lies in the specification of the URL.

Is there anybody who knows how to make it work?

Thanks in advance!

Daniel.
ds******@cs.vu.nl

"dschreij" <ds******@cs.vu.nl> wrote in message
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Hi, could anybody give me some help with the following:

I'm trying to open a remote URL to be able to access it's contents:

$fp = fopen("http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22witte+zwanen%
22,"r");
However, when I try to run this script. $fp returns false, and a warning

"Result too large" is displayed.

The closing quote is missing from the URL. You might also look into using
something like htmlspecialchars() to properly encode the query-string chars.
Finally, if this is a real-life example and intended for others to use,
consider stripping out the "&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8" as they indicate the detected
charset of Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, which might not even exist
on the user's computer.

[Pedro Graca]

dschreij wrote:

$fp = fopen("http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22witte+zwanen%22,"r");

You're missing a quote there!

Have you tried replacing "&" by "&amp;"?
Works fine both ways here.
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[John Dunlop]

Pedro Graca wrote:

dschreij wrote:

$fp = fopen("http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&ie=UTF-
8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22witte+zwanen%22","r");

As has been pointed out, encode the query component. Use
rawurlencode. At the moment, that's not a valid URI, and if its
first parameter begins with "scheme://", fopen expects an URL. The
plus sign is a reserved character in the query component. You'd have
to URL encode it: %2b.
Have you tried replacing "&" by "&amp;"?

Yes. It connects, as you'd expect, but won't return the same result
because the parameters are different. HTML entity references should
have no meaning here.

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Jock

[John Dunlop]

John Dunlop wrote:

The plus sign is a reserved character in the query component. You'd
have to URL encode it: %2b.

If that's meant to be a space, encode it with %20. The plus sign as
a space is specific to form processing; in particular, it is used in
the application/x-www-form-urlencoded media type.

--
Jock

[Chung Leong]

I tried echo
file_get_contents("http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22
witte+zwanen%22"); and it worked fine. What version of PHP do you have?

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Hi, could anybody give me some help with the following:

I'm trying to open a remote URL to be able to access it's contents:

$fp = fopen("http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22witte+zwanen
%22,"r");
However, when I try to run this script. $fp returns false, and a warning "Result too large" is displayed. This only occurs with urls that have any kind of parameters in them. If I open a random URL which doesn't have any parameters, everything works fine, whatever size the requested file may be, so I don't think the warning is because the returned result is too large, but that the problem lies in the specification of the URL.

Is there anybody who knows how to make it work?

Thanks in advance!

Daniel.
ds******@cs.vu.nl