Not downloading file of regular expression url

Question

It's gives 404 Not Found While downloading file from url. i want to downloads file from url links.

i am tried with curl in PHP.


$output_filename = "text.jpg";

$imageUrl = "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZjZhYTkyMjgtNjFkZi00NDAyLTk5ZDgtMDYwZTBkYTI1ODllXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTc5OTMwOTQ@._V1_.jpg";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $imageUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.xcontest.org");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

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

print_r($result); // prints the contents of the collected file before writing..


// the following lines write the contents to a file in the same directory (provided permissions etc)
$fp = fopen($output_filename, 'w');
fwrite($fp, $result);
fclose($fp);

When i runs script it returns me 404 not found warning for file not found. i also try to found solution from internet but not getting exact result. i think it gives warning due to downloading file from regular expression url link.

file is exist while paste image url in browser as show below image.

It says file not found because the file you are trying to download is not there. — l'L'l, Sep 04 '19 at 04:56
yes, i try to download file from url using curl in php. post code which i was try for it. — Siddharth Rathod, Sep 04 '19 at 04:58
Try putting the url image link in your browser, it doesn't exist. — l'L'l, Sep 04 '19 at 04:58
No, file is exist, Please copy image link($imageUrl) and past it in browser address bar and press enter, displaying image. — Siddharth Rathod, Sep 04 '19 at 05:01
[No image, 404 not found.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZjZhYTkyMjgtNjFkZi00NDAyLTk5ZDgtMDYwZTBkYTI1ODllXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTc5OTMwOTQ@._V1_.jpg) — l'L'l, Sep 04 '19 at 05:02
this will help you :- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6476212/save-image-from-url-with-curl-php — Alive to die - Anant, Sep 04 '19 at 05:06
Thank You @AnantSing but downloads file is empty 0kb size, allow_url_fopen is already on in php.ini file — Siddharth Rathod, Sep 04 '19 at 05:15
@l'L'l what client are you using? whatever client it is, your client is not using compression, see my answer below — hanshenrik, Sep 04 '19 at 08:57
@hanshenrik: I was using `Safari`, good answer, I didn’t think of that +1. — l'L'l, Sep 05 '19 at 00:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 04 '19 at 08:53

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZjZhYTkyMjgtNjFkZi00NDAyLTk5ZDgtMDYwZTBkYTI1ODllXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTc5OTMwOTQ@._V1_.jpg

will show a http 404 error unless you attempt to use transfer compression (like gzip or deflate)

that's probably a bug in their image cache server, and someone should send a bugreport to the media-amazon.com sysadmin. in any case, by default curl does not attempt to use transfer compression, you have to explicitly enable it, and to enable it just set CURLOPT_ENCODING to emptystring, eg

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, '');

that tells curl to attempt transfer compression, and you should get the image (but again, this is a bug in the server, someone should let them know so they can fix it!)

Not downloading file of regular expression url

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