PHP Curl returning inconsistent data for XML feed
The response is gzipped:
If you look at the HTTP headers:Content-Encoding: gzip
Unzip it with PHP:
gzinflate(substr($string, 10));http://php.net/manual/en/function.gzinflate.php
Hope that helps... cheers
You should be able to send an empty Accept-Encoding header to the server and then it should not send the content gzipped or return a Not Acceptable response:
$string = file_get_contents( "http://www.winnipegsun.com/home/rss.xml", FALSE, stream_context_create( array( 'http' => array( 'method' => "GET", 'headers' => 'Accept-Encoding:\r\n' ) ) ));var_dump($string);I am not sure the webserver is configured correctly though, because it wouldnt respond to that with the uncompressed feed, even when adding Cache Control headers telling to it not send a cached response. Oddly enough, just doing
$string = file_get_contents("http://www.winnipegsun.com/home/rss.xml?".time());worked out of the box. And you can also send a POST request.