使用此图像卷曲超时

Question

I'm trying to fetch this image using cURL: http://images.egypt.souq.com/media/item/2013/02/27/49/97/32/8/item_L_4997328_1650476.jpg

Using this code:

public static function fetchUrl($url) {
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 50);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $data = curl_exec($ch); //get curl response
    curl_close($ch);
    return $data;
}

this code is working with any image (that I tried at least) except for the above image, it returns false after consuming all the timeout's 50 seconds,

did anybody know why?

Answer 1

Specifying the userAgent for cURL solved my problem:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);

here I'm getting the userAgent from the request,

or I can even specify it manually like:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "spider");

This answer helped me: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6595108/905801