PHP file_get_contents() and setting request headers

Question

With PHP, is it possible to send HTTP headers with file_get_contents() ?

I know you can send the user agent from your php.ini file. However, can you also send other information such as HTTP_ACCEPT, HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE, and HTTP_CONNECTION with file_get_contents() ?

Or is there another function that will accomplish this?

Answer 1

Actually, upon further reading on the file_get_contents() function:

// Create a stream $opts = [     "http" => [         "method" => "GET",         "header" => "Accept-language: en\r\n" .             "Cookie: foo=bar\r\n"     ] ];  // DOCS: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php $context = stream_context_create($opts);  // Open the file using the HTTP headers set above // DOCS: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php $file = file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/', false, $context); 

You may be able to follow this pattern to achieve what you are seeking to, I haven't personally tested this though. (and if it doesn't work, feel free to check out my other answer)

Answer 2

Here is what worked for me (Dominic was just one line short).

$url = "";  $options = array(   'http'=>array(     'method'=>"GET",     'header'=>"Accept-language: en\r\n" .               "Cookie: foo=bar\r\n" .  // check function.stream-context-create on php.net               "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B334b Safari/531.21.102011-10-16 20:23:10\r\n" // i.e. An iPad    ) );  $context = stream_context_create($options); $file = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);