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curl not working for getting a web page content, why?

May 2nd, 2009

Hi all
i am using a curl script to go to a link and get its content for further manipulation. following is the link and curl script:

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<?php 
$url = 'http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/cgi/internet/nsor/fortecgi?serviceName=WebNSOR&amp;templateName=detail.htm&amp;requestingHandler=WebNSORDetailHandler&amp;ID=368343543';
 
//curl script to get content of given url
	$ch = curl_init();
// set the target url
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
// request as if Firefox
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15") ); 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, false);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	$result= curl_exec ($ch);
	curl_close ($ch);
	echo $result;
?>
<?php 
$url = 'http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/cgi/internet/nsor/fortecgi?serviceName=WebNSOR&amp;templateName=detail.htm&amp;requestingHandler=WebNSORDetailHandler&amp;ID=368343543';

//curl script to get content of given url
	$ch = curl_init();
// set the target url
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
// request as if Firefox
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15") ); 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, false);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	$result= curl_exec ($ch);
	curl_close ($ch);
	echo $result;
?>

but the website is not excepting it through script it is giving user exception in result, but if we normally paste the url in browser it is opening the page perfectly alright.

Please help, what i am doing wrong here.

Thanks and regards
jyotiu

Last edited by jyotiu; May 2nd, 2009 at 1:29 am.