I wanted to get the content of a specific url using php, so I tried both file_get_content and curl, but both returned an empty string.
Below are the code I used for the two functions.
For curl,
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_URL => 'http://www.jjwxc.net/',
CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.152 Safari/537.36',
CURLOPT_REFERER => "http://google.com",
CURLOPT_HEADER => TRUE,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => TRUE
));
$page = h(curl_exec($curl));
curl_close($curl);
For file_get_content,
$context = stream_context_create([
'http' => [
'user_agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.152 Safari/537.36'
]
]);
$page = file_get_contents('http://www.jjwxc.net/', false, $context);
Both codes are able to produce results for other sites, such as www.google.com.
I was able to open the webpage through browser, get content through command line curl, and through python requests.
I would really appreciate it if you can help me figure out what is the problem here.