Question

I have a webpage developed in php. I want to read the content of a https://(url) file. how can i read that. I have used file_get_contents().The problem is that it can read file with http protocol but cannot read file with https protocol.

Please help me out …

Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

Use the cURL extension.

$url = "https://www.example.com/";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$html_content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);