How can I download using PHP a XML file redirected in some weird way?

Question

The file which I\'m trying to download from my PHP script is this one:

http://www.navarra.es/appsext/DescargarFichero/default.aspx?codigoAcceso=OpenData&         


        

Answer 1

You dont need cURL, nor file_get_contents to load XML into any of PHP's DOM Based XML parsers.

However, in your particular case, the issue seems to be that the server expects a user agent in the http request. If the user agent is not set in your php.ini, you can use the libxml functions and provide it as a stream context:

libxml_set_streams_context(
    stream_context_create(
        array(
            'http' => array(
                'user_agent' => 'php'            
            )
        )
    )
);

$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->load('http://www.navarra.es/app…/Farmacias.xml');
echo $dom->saveXml();

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If you dont want to parse the XML file afterwards, you can use file_get_contents as well. You can pass the stream context as the third argument:

echo file_get_contents(
    'http://www.navarra.es/apps…/Farmacias.xml',
    FALSE,
    stream_context_create(
        array(
            'http' => array(
                'user_agent' => 'php'            
            )
        )
    )
);

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