file_get_contents outputs nothing

[Taras_96]

Hi everyone,

The output of

echo file_get_contents("http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/
RandomWord/RandomWordPlus.aspx");

leaves the browser empty.. no error messages, nothing.

Why is this occurring?

Thanks

Taras

[Good Man]

Taras_96 <ta******@gmail.comwrote in news:1193323567.561939.158410
@y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com:

Hi everyone,

The output of

echo file_get_contents("http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/
RandomWord/RandomWordPlus.aspx");

leaves the browser empty.. no error messages, nothing.

Why is this occurring?

presumably you have an error somewhere and error_reporting is set to off.

[Taras_96]

On Oct 25, 11:40 pm, Good Man <[e-mail]:

Taras_96 <[e-mail] in news:1193323567.561939.158410
@y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com:

Hi everyone,

The output of

echo file_get_contents("http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/
RandomWord/RandomWordPlus.aspx");

leaves the browser empty.. no error messages, nothing.

Why is this occurring?

presumably you have an error somewhere and error_reporting is set to off.

>From my php.ini

error_reporting = E_ALL|E_STRICT

; Print out errors (as a part of the output). For production web
sites,
; you're strongly encouraged to turn this feature off, and use error
logging
; instead (see below). Keeping display_errors enabled on a production
web site
; may reveal security information to end users, such as file paths on
your Web
; server, your database schema or other information.
display_errors = On

[Good Man]

Taras_96 <ta******@gmail.comwrote in
news:11*********************@k35g2000prh.googlegro ups.com:

On Oct 25, 11:40 pm, Good Man <[e-mail]:

>Taras_96 <[e-mail] in news:1193323567.561939.158410
@y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com:

Hi everyone,

The output of

echo file_get_contents("http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/
RandomWord/RandomWordPlus.aspx");

leaves the browser empty.. no error messages, nothing.

Why is this occurring?

This is on the manual page for file_get_contents, is this why? do you have
fopen wrappers enabled?
You can use a URL as a filename with this function if the fopen wrappers
have been enabled. See fopen() for more details on how to specify the
filename and Appendix O, List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers for a list of
supported URL protocols.

http://ca.php.net/file_get_contents

[Rik Wasmus]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:46:07 +0200, Taras_96 <ta******@gmail.comwrote:

Hi everyone,

The output of

echo file_get_contents("http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/
RandomWord/RandomWordPlus.aspx");

leaves the browser empty.. no error messages, nothing.

Why is this occurring?

It's a badly designed website/server, which apparently applies browser
sniffing of some sort. You'll have to mimique a common UA with for
instance CURL to get it to output anything. This works:

<?php
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,
"http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/RandomWord/RandomWordPlus.aspx");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.2; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7');

curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>

... without setting the CURLOPT_USERAGENT the site indeed outputs nothing..
--
Rik Wasmus

[macca]

Okay I just tried this with readfile.
$path = 'http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/RandomWord/
RandomWordPlus.aspx';

echo readfile($path);
Now, readfile returns the number of bytes read from the file or false
on failure and this outputs '0'.

This leads me to believe that the problem is something to do with the
aspx page not the php code.

[Taras_96]

On Oct 26, 3:02 am, "Rik Wasmus" <[e-mail]:

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:46:07 +0200, Taras_96 <[e-mail]:

Hi everyone,

The output of

echo file_get_contents("http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/
RandomWord/RandomWordPlus.aspx");

leaves the browser empty.. no error messages, nothing.

Why is this occurring?

It's a badly designed website/server, which apparently applies browser
sniffing of some sort. You'll have to mimique a common UA with for
instance CURL to get it to output anything. This works:

<?php
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,
"http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/RandomWord/RandomWordPlus....");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.2; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7');

curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>

.. without setting the CURLOPT_USERAGENT the site indeed outputs nothing.
--
Rik Wasmus

Yep, that would do the trick :D

Thanks all for your suggestions

Taras