Warning: file_get_contents: failed to open stream: Redirection limit reached, aborting

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Had a similar problem today. I was using CURL and it wasn’t returning my any error. Tested with file_get_contents() and I got…

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Made a few searches and I’v ended with this function that works on my case…

function getPage ($url) {


$useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/44.0.2403.89 Safari/537.36";
$timeout= 120;
$dir            = dirname(__FILE__);
$cookie_file    = $dir . '/cookies/' . md5($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) . '.txt';

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "" );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.google.com/');
$content = curl_exec($ch);
if(curl_errno($ch))
{
    echo 'error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
else
{
    return $content;        
}
    curl_close($ch);

}

The website was checking for a valid user agent and for cookies.

The cookie issue was causing it! 🙂
Peace!

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