Sending a User-Agent header

[jx2]

i just try it it works for bbc site
your server might not allow you openning anything out of your root folder
especialy if your site is hosted
[php]
$a = file("http://www.bbc.co.uk");
$a = implode($a);

echo htmlentities($a);

[/php]
LOL they recognize browser and sent me WAP like formated page

any one know how to pretend tha PHP is IE?

regards
jx2

[pbmods]

Heya, JX2.

To do that, you'll need to either create an HTTP stream context or else use cURL so that you can set the User-Agent header.

[jx2]

Heya, JX2.

To do that, you'll need to either create an HTTP stream context or else use cURL so that you can set the User-Agent header.

sorry to ask you - have you got simply handy example ? you know something to start with...
thx

wow something moved i didnt know i started new post :-)

[pbmods]

Heya, JX2.

I went ahead and split these posts into their own thread so as to avoid hijacking NewLearner's thread.

Here's a basic example:

$context = stream_context_create(array('http' => array(
    'method'    => 'get',
    'header'    => 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/522.11.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.3 Safari/522.12.1'
)));
 
$data = file_get_contents($url, $context);
 

This code will send the User-Agent header with the HTTP GET request.

For more information, check out this document.

[jx2]

$context = stream_context_create(array('http' => array(
    'method'    => 'get',
    'header'    => 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/522.11.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.3 Safari/522.12.1'
)));
 
$fp = fopen($url,false,$context);
fpasthrou($fp);
 

as usually you are the man!!