Question

I am running some PHP code to my browser.

If I navigate to a URL like google.com it tells me the document has moved here . . i.e to another google link.

I set cURL follow location to true.

Also. When the query actually goes through it forces my browser to download a webpage in a .gz file.

Please help. I don’t want it to download. I want it to display.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, trim("http://".trim($host).$q)); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, intval(trim($port)));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, false); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $v);

EDIT ::

Your browser sent a bad request when requesting sites like stackoverflow.com. . even 4shared.com does the same thing.

Here is the HTTPHEADER array I use in cURL;

Array
(
    [0] => Proxy-Connection: Close

    [1] => Cache-Control: max-age=0

    [2] => User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1017.2 Safari/535.19

    [3] => Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8

    [4] => Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch

    [5] => Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8

    [6] => Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3

    [7] => Cookie: __qca=P0-9

    [8] => Connection: Close
)

It’s the same curl code I use above.

    Host: stackoverflow.com                                 
    Q: /questions/tagged/java

Answer 1

For solving the gzip problem: try setting CURLOPT_ENCODING to an empty string before setting CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER. The problem is that cURL is not expecting a compressed response (since you haven’t set what encodings it should accept) but manually ask for a compressed response anyway using your custom HTTP headers.