Archive: curl

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I just hit an intriguing situation where a page that was perfectly viewable in my browser was not visible via curl. I scratched my head and messed around testing the page in variety of online proxy services and local web browsers. I even stared messing about with telnet and manually typing headers. My conclusion was [...]

One of the most useful and powerful things you can do with PHP is to create a programme which will simulate a web browser and can grab data, post data to forms and generally interact with other web sites - automatically. For PHP to be able to work like this it must have the CURL [...]