[SOLVED] How to modify php's "header" when opening a URL (with fwrite "r"?)?

[physaux]

Hey guys, I was wondering if someone could point me somewhere on how I could modify php's "header information" or something like that, so that when I read another page with fopen($url, "r"), I don't want it to know that php is accessing it. Some sites block php's header, so I would like to change it to look like firefox's or something.

 

Any clues?

[.josh]

curl

[salathe]

There are no special "PHP headers" sent (unless you define them yourself, not by default) informing remote sites that it is PHP grabbing the file rather than a normal person via a browser.  However (again by default) PHP will not send the same headers that a browser might.  The most usual difference is that no User-Agent header is sent from PHP scripts.  You can send one using, as Crayon Violent so succinctly pointed out, cURL, or you can continue using fopen and provide a stream context specifying the user agent header to send.

 

Useful links for the latter include:

• http://php.net/fopen (see 4th parameter)
  
• http://php.net/stream_context_create (to create a stream context)
  
• http://php.net/context.http  (options for a HTTP stream context)
  
• http://php.net/filesystem.configuration#ini.user-agent (ini setting for the default UA to send from fopen, file_get_contents, etc.)