Why curl return 400 bad request when i try to get page content?

Question

i am trying to get web page content with curl from some websites but they return 400 bad request ( file_get_contents return empty ) here's the function i am using :

function file_get_contents_curl($url) {
    $ch = curl_init(); 

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, TRUE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)');

    $data = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    return $data;
}

possible duplicate [how to resolve 400 bad request in curl php](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32944441/how-to-resolve-http-1-1-400-bad-request-in-curl-php) — lovelace, Oct 06 '18 at 16:35
@Gameek, read this article https://airbrake.io/blog/http-errors/400-bad-request — Gufran Hasan, Oct 06 '18 at 16:41

Gufran Hasan · Answer 1 · 2019-03-08T05:09:40.660

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Put error_reporting(E_ALL); line at the top file where you are calling this function.

It will generate the cause of an error.

edited Mar 08 '19 at 05:09

answered Oct 06 '18 at 16:48

Gufran Hasan

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