PHP Curl Print Problem

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I'm trying to print an external site's HTML using curl, but when I go to print the html I just get a bunch of bad characters:

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Here is my code:

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.thesite.com/");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec ($curl);
curl_close ($curl);
print $result;

Any help would be great,

Thanks!

So what URL are you requesting? Have you tried requesting it in the browser with a blank user agent? What do you get? — alex
– alex, Commented May 20, 2011 at 1:18
The url isn't important because it will be changed often, I'm just looking to grab all the HTML in the document I point the curl to. — user580523
– user580523, Commented May 20, 2011 at 1:19
Do you get headers back? Check out the Content-Encoding header. the body may be compressed. If you're not even getting headers back, are you sure you're connecting to an HTTP server? — Frank Farmer
– Frank Farmer, Commented May 20, 2011 at 1:27

dkamins · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-20 04:32:43Z

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If the response is GZIP'd, you may use this:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip');

See: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

To see if it's gzip'd, check the headers (see CURLOPT_HEADER).

answered May 20, 2011 at 4:32

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