PHP file_get_contents() returns “failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!”

Question

I am having problems calling a url from PHP code. I need to call a service using a query string from my PHP code. If I type the url into a browser, it works ok, but if I use

Answer 1

Could this be your problem?

Note: If you're opening a URI with special characters, such as spaces, you need to encode the URI with urlencode().