Question

I want to access https://graph.facebook.com/19165649929?fields=name (obviously it’s also accessable with “http”) with cURL to get the file’s content, more specific: I need the “name” (it’s json).
Since allow_url_fopen is disabled on my webserver, I can’t use get_file_contents! So I tried it this way:

<?php
$page = 'http://graph.facebook.com/19165649929?fields=name';
$ch = curl_init();
//$useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1";
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $page);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>

With that code I get a blank page! When I use another page, like http://www.google.com it works like a charm (I get the page’s content). I guess facebook is checking something I don’t know… What can it be? How can I make the code work? Thanks!

Answer 1

did you double post this here?
php: Get html source code with cURL

however in the thread above we found your problem beeing unable to resolve the host and this was the solution:

//$url = "https://graph.facebook.com/19165649929?fields=name";
$url = "https://66.220.146.224/19165649929?fields=name";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Host: graph.facebook.com'));
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);