Question

<?php
function get($get){
        $ch = curl_init("http://www.google.com/");
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        echo    $output = curl_exec($ch);
}
get("stackoverflow");

works fine

However stackoverflow’s API

<?php
function get($get){
        $ch = curl_init("http://api.$get.com/1.1/users/?filter=genesis&max=10000&min=5000");

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        echo    $output = curl_exec($ch);
}
get("stackoverflow");

looks wrong

Is it bug of SO’s API? Does this belong to Meta?

Answer 1

Try to add

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_ENCODING , "gzip");

to your code. API’s response is gzip encoded