Curl in PHP retrieve HTML into variable not working - php

Question

My code snippet (this comes after previous Curl commands to log-in and store cookies):
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL,"https://www.example.com");
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 3);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookie.txt');
$result = curl_exec ($curl);
if ($result === FALSE) {
echo "cURL Error: " . curl_error($curl);
}
curl_close ($curl);
print 'result: '.$result;
The displayed result just prints headers. In other words, the actual source HTML does not appear to be saved to the $result variable. I know the results are there because when I view source on the retrieved page - everything is there. If it makes a difference the page I'm requesting is XML.
Thank you

Answer 1

Replace print 'result: '.$result;
with
echo htmlspecialchars($result);
If you are looking to display the <tags>, you need to do like this.

Answer 2

You've set this variable:
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
This is why you're getting headers.
You're printing the result to the browser and the browser sees XML tags and does XML stuff with them. The data is there because you see it when you View->Source. If you remove the headers your browser may complain about a missing stylesheet and display the raw XML. But as you've already proved to yourself, you have the data.

Answer 3

To elaborate on #rand'Chris's answer, you can remove both:
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
and
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
And you will no longer receive headers from example.com. Of course, since you're accessing a different site, this may not be the complete (or even correct) solution.