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Let PHP pretend to be a web browser.

Some web sites (like IMDb) prevent external scripts from parsing their contents by denying request without a user-agent string. Though this can be circumvented by manually sending the necessary headers, this is usually too complicated. These functions (be_fopen and be_file) wrap the fsockopen calls and send all the necessary headers before returning a file handle usable with any PHP function. As a side-effect, you may be able to break the restrictions of allow_url_fopen with these functions!

Version:	2.0.1
Platform(s):	All
Price:	GPL
Author:	Kai Blankenhorn ( view author's listings or contact author )
Date Added:	Feb 10 2003
Visits:	2527 (< 1/day)
Rating:	(3.05 from 23 votes) - Select - Excellent! Very Good Good Fair Poor
Web Site URL:	http://www.bitfolge.de/befopen
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