fopen, file, readfile all 403d

[johnnyk]

Warning: fopen(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden in wikipedia.html on line 16

Why is it 403ing? Is there anyway to analyze wikipedia page with php?

[johnnyk]

I heard fsockopen would stop the 403, but I tried it out and it won't make a connection at all. At least I don't think it makes a connection cause the script aint working.

[johnnyk]

Edit: Forget it, post name confusing, started other post

[hitman6003]

This will get you started.

You will need to make sure that the cURL extension is enabled.

[code]$page = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP";

function processURL($url){
       $url=str_replace('&','&',$url);
       $ch=curl_init();
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
       curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
       $xml = curl_exec ($ch);
       curl_close ($ch);
       echo $xml;
}

echo processURL($page);[/code]

Read the manual pages on cURL as well:

[a href=\"http://www.php.net/curl\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.php.net/curl[/a]