Beginner problem: Trying to file_get_contents of file that force-downloads

[yortzec]

I am trying to get the contents of a file on an external website (the file is http://sync.in/ep/pad/export/c9ppXi1bp7/latest?format=txt), but it fails, I think because the server force-downloads the file. Is there any way to fix this or go around this?

 

I receive the following error:

 

Warning: file_get_contents(http://sync.in/ep/pad/export/c9ppXi1bp7/latest?format=txt) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Connection refused

 

Thanks for any help,

Y

[requinix]

file_get_contents() is enough. Apparently the sync.in server is refusing your connection to download the file. Or maybe your PHP configuration disallows downloading files but I think you'd get a different error message for that.

 

I just tried

echo file_get_contents("http://sync.in/ep/pad/export/c9ppXi1bp7/latest?format=txt");

and it worked for me.

[.josh]

"force downloads" is a browser thing.  It is a http header sent with the response to tell the browser to initiate download.  It means absolutely nothing to server-side scripting unless you write your script to look for it and do something.  Same thing w/ browsers, actually...just that browsers ARE written to look for it and do something.