Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/30/07 12:33

zenner wrote:
> Hello.
> when i try to "read" some websites with fopen() some of them allow but
> some don't
> Does the server knows that it´s not a web browser that it's trying to
> access?
> How can i solve this??
>
> Below is an example of a site that gives an error when you try to read
> it.
>
> <?php
> $file="http://www.radios.pt/portalradio/";
> $fp = fopen($file, "r");
> while (!feof($fp))
> {
> $a=$a.fgets($fp);
> }
> fclose($fp);
> echo $a;
> ?>
>
>

They could be checking the headers for the user agent. Like anything
sent by the client, however, it's not very reliable.

Usually when they do such things it's because they don't want people
accessing their site from scripts.

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