I want to download the contents of a URL using PHP, even if the HTTP response code is 404. file_get_contents
will error out, and I wasn't able to find an answer using Google. How can I do this?
I want to download the contents of a URL using PHP, even if the HTTP response code is 404. file_get_contents
will error out, and I wasn't able to find an answer using Google. How can I do this?
You have to configure the stream wrapper to ignore errors:
ignore_errors
boolean
Fetch the content even on failure status codes. Defaults toFALSE
In other words, do
echo file_get_contents(
'http://stackoverflow.com/foo/bar',
false,
stream_context_create([
'http' => [
'ignore_errors' => true,
],
])
);
and you will get the 404 page.
If you want this to be the default behavior for HTTP streams, use
stream_context_set_default(
array('http' => array(
'ignore_errors' => true)
)
);
Any calls using the HTTP stream wrapper will use these settings then, e.g. you can simply do
echo file_get_contents('http://stackoverflow.com/foo/bar');
If you also want to get the response header, just do
print_r($http_response_header);
after the call. The variable is (re-)populated after each call with a http stream wrapper.