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Say I use php copy(), to get a file from a site.
And then a user who is using a proxy filtering service that has that site blocked, will the site still be able to copy that file for the user?
If not, would a cron job be able to?
And is the same for file_get_contents?
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PHP runs on the server, so it is the webserver, not the user, which requests that remote file.
So yes, you can copy a file from a server which a user themselves might not be able to reach directly.