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    <p>For some reason I can't seem to get this particular web page's contents via cURL. I've managed to use cURL to get to the "top level page" contents fine, but the same self-built quick cURL function doesn't seem to work for one of the linked off sub web pages.</p> <p><strong>Top level page:</strong> <code>http://www.deindeal.ch/</code></p> <p><strong>A sub page:</strong> <code>http://www.deindeal.ch/deals/hotel-cristal-in-nuernberg-30/</code></p> <p><strong>My cURL function (in functions.php)</strong></p> <pre><code>function curl_get($url) { $ch = curl_init(); $header = array( 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8', 'Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7', 'Accept-Language: en-us;q=0.8,en;q=0.6' ); $options = array( CURLOPT_URL =&gt; $url, CURLOPT_HEADER =&gt; 0, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER =&gt; 1, CURLOPT_USERAGENT =&gt; 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13', CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER =&gt; $header ); curl_setopt_array($ch, $options); $return = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); return $return; } </code></pre> <p><strong>PHP file to get the contents (using echo for testing)</strong></p> <pre><code>require "functions.php"; require "phpQuery.php"; echo curl_get('http://www.deindeal.ch/deals/hotel-walliserhof-zermatt-2-naechte-30/'); </code></pre> <p><strong><em>So far I've attempted the following to get this to work</em></strong></p> <ul> <li>Ran the file both locally (XAMPP) and remotely (LAMP).</li> <li>Added in the user-agent and HTTP headers as recommended here <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4597309/file-get-contents-and-curl-cant-open-a-specific-website">file_get_contents and CURL can&#39;t open a specific website</a> - before the function <code>curl_get()</code> contained all the options as current, except for CURLOPT_USERAGENT<code>and</code>CURLOPT_HTTPHEADERS`.</li> </ul> <p>Is it possible for a website to completely block requests via cURL or other remote file opening mechanisms, regardless of how much data is supplied to attempt to make a real browser request?</p> <p>Also, is it possible to diagnose why my requests are turning up with nothing?</p> <p>Any help answering the above two questions, or editing/making suggestions to get the file's contents, even if through a method different than cURL would be greatly appreciated ;).</p>
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