how to get JSON data from unusual port in php? - php

Question

i have scout_realtime, and i want to get stats.json from it. in debug it looks like
91.205.168.39 - - [10/Nov/2018:09:54:22 CET] "GET /stats.json HTTP/1.1" 200 3896
http://188.165.3.*:5556/ -> /stats.json
how to get it manially? I tried to do something like this:
$status = file_get_contents('http://188.165.3.*:5556/stats.gson')
but it doesnt work

Answer 1

$url = 'http://188.165.3.*:5556/stats.json';
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
ok i made it myself :D

Answer 2

You have several possibilities to fetch your datas.
Firstly you can use cURL. CURL is really good to send requests. As you showed in your own answer you can send an HTTP request in only few lines. I won't show a CURL example because it's already done in your answer.
Please note that you can use libraries like Guzzle to send requests, it's easier.
Then, I'm not sure about what doesn't work in your code, but it is possible to fetch datas on a given port using file_get_contents. Here is the little example tested with PHP 7.2.10.
server.php
<?php
echo 'Hi from server';
client.php
<?php
echo file_get_contents('http://localhost:8080/server.php');
server.php acts as the server you are trying to hit. It's supposed to return a simple string.
client.php is the script that's trying to fetch the datas.
Then if you run php -S localhost:8080 -t . in the directory where server.php is, you can execute the client.
Please note that you can configure the behaviour of file_get_contents by giving it a context parameter. See the stream_context_create documentation to learn more about it.
This answer aims to show that it is possible to fetch datas using file_get_contents, but if you need some specific parameters to fetch your datas like configuring a proxy, a port or something more complexe that just read the file, I suggest to use an HTTP-dedicated function or library, like cURL or Guzzle.