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I'm using PHP CURL to access PDF files, and everything is working properly with the exception of the end result being unreadable. My code is as follows:
$cookie = 'cookies.txt';
$timeout = 30;
$url = "http://www.somesite.com/sample_report.pdf";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Encoding: none','Content-Type: application/pdf'));
$result = curl_exec($ch);
echo $result;
When I just manually enter the URL into the browser, the PDF properly displays. But when using CURL, it displays pages of gibberish text.
Looking at the code view in the browser, I see a lot of lines like these:
5 0 obj
<</Length 6 0 R/Filter /FlateDecode>>
stream
And on the page where the .pdf should display, is the following code:
<body>
<p>
<object id='mypdf' type='application/pdf' width='100%' height='90%' data='sample_report.pdf'>
</object>
</p>
</body>
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Try it with this (keep your first 3 lines the same)
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Encoding: none','Content-Type: application/pdf'));
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $result;
The line I commented out doesn't appear to be doing anything. I added the "header" line. If I take that line out, I get a page of gibberish as you do. If it is still saying "headers already sent", there must be something setting a header elsewhere.
EDIT:
I would also suggest changing this:
<object id='mypdf' type='application/pdf' width='100%' height='90%' data='sample_report.pdf'></object>
To this:
<iframe src="sample_report.pdf" width="100%" height="90%"></iframe>
Or, if your PHP script is called sample_report.pdf (for instance) try changing iframe src to sample_report.php.
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