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Answer 1

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Try changing the output buffering from ON to a set size. For example

output_buffering = 4096

Ólafur Waage 2009-09-12 20:40:09

Answer 2

+3 A:

First of all:

echo fopen($myurl, "r");

Obviously isn't going to work. I assume you meant:

$handle = fopen($myurl, "r");
echo(fread($handle, $some_size));
fclose($handle);

In that case you're doing it wrong. fread() is not guaranteed to return all the data in one call; sometimes you need to call it multiple times to get the whole input. This is especially true if the remote HTTP server uses Transfer-Encoding: chunked.

See the fread() documentation for more information. Quoting the documentation:

When reading from anything that is not a regular local file, such as streams returned when reading remote files or from popen() and fsockopen(), reading will stop after a packet is available. This means that you should collect the data together in chunks as shown in the examples below.

$handle = fopen("http://www.example.com/", "rb");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
  $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);

A simpler solution would be to use file _ get _ contents(). However this function writes the entire file into a single string, which may or may not hurt performance depending on what you do with the input from the web page.

e-t172 2009-09-12 21:11:04

I would kiss you if I could! Thanks buddy

Santi 2009-09-12 21:17:29

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