weird special characters when loading xml

[if]

i tried this

$string = file_get_contents('http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/filelist/4137201');
echo  $string;

 

and this is the result

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any ideas ?

[if]

that should load an xml file but i get those weird characters  ???

[DyslexicDog]

I get the same garbage, have you tried using cURL?

[rhodesa]

It's returning the gzipped version. With cURL you can specify to not return the gzipped version:

<?php
  $url = 'http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/filelist/4137201';
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_ENCODING,'deflate');
  $xml = curl_exec($ch);
  echo $xml;
?>