I'm trying to download a file from a remote location. I use PHP curl
to accomplish this but the code always returns zero byte file (even ECHO returns nothing) and when I visit the URL on my browser it prompt to download the file. why the code won't download the file using curl?
If it is headers that matters, is there a way to automatically set headers?
function get_data($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_REFERER, 'https://torcache.net/');
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_ENCODING,"gzip");
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $data;
}
$result = get_data($url);
The file I want to download has these headers:
Content-Type application/x-bittorrent
Cache-Control must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Content-Disposition attachment; filename="1483EC6A5EB53FC27693F848E9E28175577F6743.torrent"
Connection close
Content-Length 153812
Note: I had to add curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_ENCODING,"gzip");