How to disguise your PHP script as a browser?

Question

We\'ve been using information from a site for a while now (something that the site allows if you mention the source and we do) and we\'ve been copying the information by han

Answer 1

I had to lose 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate', from the $header to get it to work properly on my godaddy website.

Answer 2

Try escaping your URL, it works for me that way.

http://mediaforest.ro/weeklycharts/viewchart.aspx?r=WeeklyChartRadioLocal&y=2010&w=46%2008-11-10%2014-11-10

Answer 3

Use curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12');

You can replace the useragent with another one of course.

However, "Bad Request" is most likely NOT related to a missing/bad useragent. It sounds like the webserver itself doesn't like your request.. not the application behind the requested URI.