[SOLVED] issues downloading a webcam image from other server to web server using curl

[ultrus]

As I'm using cheap godaddy hosting for my personal website, some php functionality is disabled when it comes to getting files from other servers. I can however use curl. I'm having issues though as the webcam image I'm getting loads slowly and returns an incomplete image, causing errors like this:

 

Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg() [function.imagecreatefromjpeg]: gd-jpeg: JPEG library reports unrecoverable error: in /home/XXX/getAndMake.php5 on line 45

 

Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg() [function.imagecreatefromjpeg]: '../images/X.jpg' is not a valid JPEG file in /home/XXX/getAndMake.php5 on line 45

image width = , perhaps there is a problem.

 

I know the script works if I already have a test image there to use. When I look at the "loaded" image, it is 1kb and incomplete. Here is what I'm using that is not working:

 

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://url/to/webcam/image.jpg");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);

$fileContents = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$fp = fopen("../images/X/X.jpg", "w+"); //placed "X" for demo purposes in this post
fwrite($fp, $fileContents);
fclose($fp);

 

Any ideas on how I can get the full image to load? Am I missing anything in the options (so many possible options)? Thanks for the help.

[Daniel0]

Try to set CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER to true.

[ultrus]

hmmm. sadly I'm getting the same result. It's not like it's timing out either. I get the error messages almost instantly. I also bumped up the timeout from 5 to 30.

 

No sense in hiding it, here are the image links:

on my server (incomplete): http://christopherstevens.cc/images/denv1/originals/chpark1.jpg

 

Result of working conversion here (worked at one point):

http://christopherstevens.cc

 

official image:

http://apcd.state.co.us/psi/chpark.jpg

 

Would you have better luck with the script above? I wonder if it is my hosting or something odd like that.

[ultrus]

I just manually downloaded the file, uploaded to the server, and am having other errors. Now I'm wondering if the image format has changed somehow or if I have issues in my script...

 

EDIT------------------

 

There was an error in my script, BUT I fixed it, and am still having the same curl issues. Any thoughts?

[ultrus]

Ah! If I load the incomplete image in a text editor, I get this:

 

Object Moved

This document may be found here

 

"here" is a link to the image. This gets me further. How would I solve this?

[ultrus]

The soluction:

 

curl_setopt ($ch,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);

 

Thanks all. All is fixed.