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Asked: 2026-06-14T04:02:03+00:00

I have been asked to grab a certain line from a page but it

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I have been asked to grab a certain line from a page but it appears that site has blocked CURL requests?

The site in question is http://www.habbo.com/home/Intricat

I tried changing the UserAgent to see if they were blocking that but it didn’t seem to do the trick.

The code I am using is as follows:

<?php

$curl_handle=curl_init();
//This is the URL you would like the content grabbed from
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0");
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,'http://www.habbo.com/home/Intricat');
//This is the amount of time in seconds until it times out, this is useful if the server you are requesting data from is down. This way you can offer a "sorry page"
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2);

curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
//This Keeps everything running smoothly
curl_close($curl_handle);

// Change the message bellow as you wish, please keep in mind you must have your message within the " " Quotes.
if (empty($buffer))
{
    print "Sorry, It seems our weather resources are currently unavailable, please check back later.";
}
else
{
    print $buffer;
}
?>

Any ideas on another way I can grab a line of code from that page if they’ve blocked CURL requests?

EDIT: On running curl -i through my server, it appears that the site is setting a cookie first?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are not very specific about the kind of block you’re talking. The website in question http://www.habbo.com/home/Intricat does first of all check if the browser has javascript enabled:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">
    <script type="text/javascript">function setCookie(c_name, value, expiredays) {
        var exdate = new Date();
        exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate() + expiredays);
        document.cookie = c_name + "=" + escape(value) + ((expiredays == null) ? "" : ";expires=" + exdate.toGMTString()) + ";path=/";
    }
    function getHostUri() {
        var loc = document.location;
        return loc.toString();
    }
    setCookie('YPF8827340282Jdskjhfiw_928937459182JAX666', '179.222.19.192', 10);
    setCookie('DOAReferrer', document.referrer, 10);
    location.href = getHostUri();</script>
</head>
<body>
<noscript>This site requires JavaScript and Cookies to be enabled. Please change your browser settings or upgrade your
    browser.
</noscript>
</body>
</html>

    As curl has no javascript support you either need to use a HTTP client that has -or- you need to mimic that script and create the cookie and new request URI your own.

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