[PHP] Useragent and file

2002-08-30 Thread Todd Pasley 

Hi

Im using file() to get the contents of a webpage. e.g

// get a web page into an array 
$fcontents= file ($targeturl);

However I dont know how to mimic a different useragent. Using LWP::UA (in perl) i can 
pretend to be iexplore6 running on win2k or anything i want.. Is there a way i can do 
this in PHP?

By changing the useragent will this also resolve problems with javascript?, I'd like 
the target server to think that I can view/run it.

Thanks heaps,

Todd.

RE: [PHP] Useragent and file [SOLN]

2002-08-30 Thread Todd Pasley 

Hi

I found an alternative to using file to get web content.

using fsockopen you can specify a useragent as per rfc-something which
handles it all very very nicely.

Its also nicer that what I was using to post and is looking more likely to
store cookies/sessions... but ill get to that later :)

thanks to anyone who thought about replying :)

Maybe this discovering might help someone else also, hence my post.

Later,

Todd.


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 Hi

 Im using file() to get the contents of a webpage. e.g

 // get a web page into an array
 $fcontents= file ($targeturl);

 However I dont know how to mimic a different useragent. Using
 LWP::UA (in perl) i can pretend to be iexplore6 running on win2k
 or anything i want.. Is there a way i can do this in PHP?

 By changing the useragent will this also resolve problems with
 javascript?, I'd like the target server to think that I can view/run it.

 Thanks heaps,

 Todd.



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