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user1530205
user1530205

Reputation: 302

Incorrect characters returned RSS/XML Feed

hoping someone out there can help. I have a small script using Curl to download a file from an rss feed.

The RSS feed validates as XML yet when I try to run my script I get the following:

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I've tested it with other XML links and it seems to work. The url is 'HTTPS' if that might make any difference and here is my code:

$url = "";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);         
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);          
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);

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

echo $result;

Any help is greatly appreciated

Upvotes: 1

Views: 43

Answers (1)

Pedro Lobito
Pedro Lobito

Reputation: 98921

The output seems to be gzip encoded, try using:

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

Note:

This option sets the Accept-Encoding: gzip header on the request and uncompresses the response.

Upvotes: 1

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