File_get_contents($url): failed to open stream - php

Question

I have a script where I read a file using:
file_get_contents(urlencode($url));
I get this error:
failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 400 Bad request
I tried this, but I still get the error.
I've tried this:
ini_set('default_socket_timeout', 120);
This:
$opts = array('http'=>array('timeout' => 120));
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$resul = file_get_contents($url,0,$context);
And this:
$opts = array('http'=>array('timeout' => 120,'header'=>'Connection : close'));
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$resul = file_get_contents($url,false,$context);
Can you help me figure out why I get the error?

Answer 1

You need encode only "querystring", extract query and enconding this, after append enconded query you "url".
Note: file_get_contents requires allow_url_fopen=On in "php.ini", try use curl
Example (read my comments in code)
Note: This example get error in connection and http errors
<?php
//Set your page example
$uri = 'http://localhost/path/webservice.php?callback=&id=153&provenance=153&ret=a:1:{s:5:"infos";a:8:{s:8:"civilite";s:3:"Mme";s:5:"lname";s:0:"";s:5:"fname";s:8:"Nathalie";s:5:"email";s:17:"tometnata#free.fr";s:3:"tel";s:0:"";s:7:"adresse";s:0:"";s:6:"date_n";s:14:"10:"01/06/1969";s:2:"cp";s:0:"";}}';
//extract url
$parsed_url = parse_url($uri);
//Create fixed url
$fixed_url = $parsed_url['scheme'] . '://' . $parsed_url['host'] . $parsed_url['path'];
//If exists query
if (isset($parsed_url['query'])) {
$output = array();
$result = array();
//Extract querystring
parse_str($parsed_url['query'], $output);
//Encode values in querystring
forEach($output as $k => $v) {
$result[] = $k . '=' . rawurlencode($v);
}
//Append encoded querystring
$fixed_url .= '?' . implode('&', $result);
}
echo 'GET url: ', $fixed_url, '<br>';
//Get result in page
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 30; //set to zero for no timeout
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $fixed_url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);
$errornum = curl_errno($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
$status = (int) $info['http_code'];
if ($errornum !== 0) {
echo 'Error: ', curl_error($ch);
$file_contents = NULL;
} else if ($status !== 200) {
echo 'http_error: ', $status;
$file_contents = NULL;
} else {
echo 'Result:<hr>';
echo $file_contents;
}
curl_close($ch);
?>
Enable curl
Windows (Xampp): https://stackoverflow.com/a/1347340/1518921
Linux (like debian): https://stackoverflow.com/a/11724633/1518921
Mac OSX (probably outdated): https://stackoverflow.com/a/11354731/1518921