php - Get compressed contents using cURL

Bé Khỏe Bé Pro picture Bé Khỏe Bé Pro · Jul 19, 2013 · Viewed 17k times · Source

I need to get content of various web pages. Some of them are compressed using different methods (gzip, deflate, etc). I've searched on the Internet and found the solution for gzipped content:

$ch = curl_init("http://games2k.net/");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_ENCODING , "gzip");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $output;

However, this only works for a single method. I need a solution that works for as many compression methods as possible (preferably all of them) or at least the most popular two which are gzip and deflate.

Thanks very much for your help!

Answer

Deepanshu Goyal picture Deepanshu Goyal · Jul 19, 2013

did you try

$ch = curl_init("http://games2k.net/");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_ENCODING , "");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $output;

keep the quotes empty