Geting remote file using CURL

Okay... Im new to using CURL so i hope someone will help me.

Basically I need to download remote file to the directory on my server.

My script is doing a search across titles in database, then take from it their id and pass it to $aid variable.

Rest is in snippet:

function get_contents($url) {

    $ch = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_PORT,9001);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);

    
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "utf-8");

    $string = curl_exec($ch) or die(curl_error());

    curl_close($ch);

    return $string;

}
 

...blablabla

$adres = 'http://api.anidb.net9001/httpapi?request=anime&client=animerank&clientver=1&protover=1&aid='.$aid;
$con = get_contents($adres);
$had = './aid_xml/'.$aid.'.xml';
$ha = fopen($had,"w");
	fputs($ha,$con);
	fclose($ha);

..rest

PHP:

Unfortunately im not geting normal file like i would typing for example http://api.anidb.net:9001/httpapi?request=anime&client=animerank&clientver=1&protover=1&133

in my browser. Instead contents are standard 404 page. I believe that is the page received if not connected on 9001 port. But I think I done this part with curl

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_PORT,9001);

PHP:

What am I doing wrong?

Definition of the api: http://wiki.anidb.info/w/HTTP_API_Definition

 

The URL you gave show this error. If you try with http://api.anidb.net:9001/httpapi?request=anime&client=animerank&clientver=1&protover=1&133&aid=3 it will work.

 

Thats not the case. I made a mistake posting a link but script still doesnt work.

Content is gzipped and utf-8 encoded, but i think Curl decompress gzpipped pages automatically.

 

Have you tried to remove the port from the given URL ?

 

Yes - not working.

Maybe there is a better way to download this content?

 

set the encoding with curl_setopt:

 

Therefore change the CURL_ENCODING TO Gzip and have a try!

 

I think that did it. Thank you for your help.