PHP file get contents returns failed to open stream HTTP request failed

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I am having problems calling a url from PHP code  I need to call a service using a query string from my PHP code  If I type the url into a browser  it works ok  but if I use file-get-contents   to make the call  I get      Warning  file-get-contents http          failed to open stream  HTTP request failed  HTTP 1 1 202 Accepted in       The code I am using is    query file get contents  http                mp get mpsrc http   mybucket s3 amazonaws com 11111 mpg amp mpaction convert format flv    echo  query     Like I said - call from the browser and it works fine  Any suggestions   I have also tried with another url such as    query file get contents  http   www youtube com watch v XiFrfeJ8dKM      This works fine    could it be that the url I need to call has a second http    in it

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I notice that your URL has spaces in it  I think that usually is a bad thing  Try encoding the URL with    my url   urlencode  my url      and then calling   file get contents  my url     and see if you have better luck

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Use this  file get contents  my url null null

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Could this be your problem      Note  If you re opening a URI with special characters  such as spaces  you need to encode the URI with urlencode

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file get contents   utilizes the fopen   wrappers  therefore it is restricted from accessing URLs through the allow url fopen option within php ini   You will either need to alter your php ini to turn this option on or use an alternative method  namely cURL - by far the most popular and  to be honest  standard way to accomplish what you are trying to do

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You basically are required to send some information with the request   Try this     opts   array  http   gt array  header    gt   User-Agent MyAgent 1 0 r n        Basically adding headers to the request  context   stream context create  opts    html   file get contents  url false  context    html   htmlspecialchars  html     This worked out for me

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This is what worked for me    I did not use curl  I was able to access a particular API url via browser  but when used in file get contents  it gave the error  quot  failed to open stream quot   Then  I modified the API URL that I wanted to call by encoding all double quotes with urlencoding and kept everything else untouched  Sample format is given below   url    https   stackoverflow com questions  urlencode   quot    variable1   quot     Then use file get contents  url

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I m not sure about the parameters mpaction  format   if they are specified for the amazonaws page or         Try to urlencode   the url

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I got a similar problem   I parsed the youtube url   The code is    json is    http   gdata youtube com feeds api videos q    this- gt video url   amp max-results 1 amp alt json    video info   json decode   file get contents    json is    true          video title   is array    video info      video info   feed     entry    0    title      t           Then I realise that  this- gt video url include the whitespace  I solved that using trim  this- gt video url     Maybe it will help you   Good Luck

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query file get contents  http                mp get     http build query array  mpsrc    gt   http   mybucket s3 amazonaws com 11111 mpg amp mpaction convert format flv

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I got a similar problem   Due to timeout    Timeout can be indicated like this     options   array       http    gt  array           header     gt   Content-type  application x-www-form-urlencoded r n            method     gt   POST            content    gt  http build query  data2            timeout    gt  30             context   stream context create  options    retour    retour    file get contents  http   xxxxx xxx xxxx   false   context

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lt  php   lurl get fcontent  http   ip2 cc  api cname amp ip 84 228 229 81    echo cid    lurl 0    lt BR gt      function get fcontent   url    javascript loop   0   timeout   5          url   str replace    amp amp      amp    urldecode trim  url            cookie   tempnam    tmp    CURLCOOKIE         ch   curl init        curl setopt   ch  CURLOPT USERAGENT   Mozilla 5 0  Windows  U  Windows NT 5 1  rv 1 7 3  Gecko 20041001 Firefox 0 10 1         curl setopt   ch  CURLOPT URL   url        curl setopt   ch  CURLOPT COOKIEJAR   cookie        curl setopt   ch  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION  true        curl setopt   ch  CURLOPT ENCODING            curl setopt   ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  true        curl setopt   ch  CURLOPT AUTOREFERER  true        curl setopt   ch  CURLOPT SSL VERIFYPEER  false         required for https urls     curl setopt   ch  CURLOPT CONNECTTIMEOUT   timeout        curl setopt   ch  CURLOPT TIMEOUT   timeout        curl setopt   ch  CURLOPT MAXREDIRS  10         content   curl exec   ch         response   curl getinfo   ch        curl close    ch         if   response  http code      301     response  http code      302            ini set  user agent    Mozilla 5 0  Windows  U  Windows NT 5 1  rv 1 7 3  Gecko 20041001 Firefox 0 10 1             if    headers   get headers  response  url                    foreach   headers as  value                     if   substr  strtolower  value   0  9       location                         return get url  trim  substr   value  9  strlen  value                                            if        preg match    gt    space    window  location  replace           i    content   value     preg match    gt    space    window  location           i    content   value     amp  amp   javascript loop  lt  5            return get url   value 1    javascript loop 1          else           return array   content   response                gt

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Try using cURL     lt  php   curl handle curl init    curl setopt  curl handle  CURLOPT URL  http                mp get mpsrc http   mybucket s3 amazonaws com 11111 mpg amp mpaction convert format flv    curl setopt  curl handle  CURLOPT CONNECTTIMEOUT  2   curl setopt  curl handle  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1   curl setopt  curl handle  CURLOPT USERAGENT   Your application name     query   curl exec  curl handle   curl close  curl handle      gt

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