XML file opens in the browser but does not open with simplexml_load_file

Question

When I open the URL of XML (client 2) on browser, it opens perfectly, but when I try to open the same URL (copied and pasted in full) with simplexml_load_file in PHP I got the errors, including 404 (NOT FOUND). Does anyone have any solution?

Note: I changed the customers's addresses (URL) and the path of the PHP file to '/path/arquivo.php'.

<?php

 $customers[1] = 'http://www.customer1.com.br/dados.xml';
 $customers[2] = 'http://www.customer2.com.br/dados.xml'; 

 $xml1 = simplexml_load_file ($customers[1]); // it works perfectly 
 $xml2 = simplexml_load_file ($customers[2]); // ERROR

Errors that I got

Warning: file_get_contents (http://www.cliente2.com.br/dados.xml): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP / 1.1 404 Not Found in /path/arquivo.php on line 5

Warning: simplexml_load_file (): I / O warning: failed to load external entity "http://www.cliente2.com.br/dados.xml" in /path/arquivo.php on line 5

I've tried using libxml_disable_entity_loader (false); before opening the file but the error remains.

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS, with PHP 5.5.9.

I'll appreciate any help!

Thanks a lot!

Are these the actual error messages? ie: is the url given in the errors the actual url? — Professor Abronsius
– Professor Abronsius, Commented Nov 6, 2015 at 22:12
just to confirm, are you able to open both urls in a browser window but one of them gives out a 404 when you try to load it with simplexml_load_file? Can you access the url from a terminal via curl? ex. $> curl http://problem.url.com/dados.xml ? — Alex Andrei
– Alex Andrei, Commented Nov 6, 2015 at 22:17
Yes, both works. And Yes, I can access it from a terminal via curl. — Allan Andrade
– Allan Andrade, Commented Nov 6, 2015 at 22:19

Allan Andrade · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-06 22:38:39Z

4

It appears that the webserver filters out requests coming in without a proper User-Agent.

So you need to use curl, pass an user agent (I just used the latest Chrome user agent) and get the response.

<?php

$curl_handle=curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL,'http://www.cliente2.com.br/dados.xml');
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36');
$response = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);

//var_dump($response);

$xml = simplexml_load_string($response);

print_r($xml);

Be prepared for a long output

edited Nov 6, 2015 at 22:38

Allan Andrade

72012 silver badges27 bronze badges

answered Nov 6, 2015 at 22:27

Alex Andrei

7,2763 gold badges30 silver badges44 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

1 Comment

Allan Andrade Over a year ago

Thanks a lot! Works very well!

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

XML file opens in the browser but does not open with simplexml_load_file

1 Answer 1

1 Comment

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

1 Answer 1

1 Comment

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related