On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:24:07 -0000
"John Allsopp" <j...@johnallsopp.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm afraid I've fallen a little out of touch with PHP dev, so a stupid
> question for you.
> 
> I want to write a script that requests a URL and then reads that
> website .. I'm interested to map web structures. My web host is
> saying I'll need URL file access enabled but that it's a) a security
> risk and b) deprecated.
> 
> So .. what's the good / proper / acceptable / secure way of reading in
> URLs in PHP or .. isn't there one?

cURL is the best one in my experience, but you have to manage security
yourself. Meaning: Remember to escape/encode data.

http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php

> Cheers
> J
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