How to force file_get_contents to work

Question

It was a while that I use the function file_get_contents to get html data from a website. but today it dosen't, to see why I've used :

$html = @file_get_contents('http://www.thewebsite.com/');
if(!$html)
   exit( "Oops. Error :)" );

And this show me the error message. So perhaps they have prevent somehow the connection.

Please masters how could I force the function to get the contents ?

EDIT :

This give this error :

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.thewebsite.com/) 
       [<a href='function.file-get-contents'>function.file-get-contents</a>]: 
       failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!

PS I've tried another website and this works fine

You forgot to read the documentation. Several reasons that `file_get_contents` may fail are listed there. — Lightness Races in Orbit, Feb 28 '13 at 10:38
It doesn't show the important error message because you've suppressed it with `@`. Remove it and edit your question. — Álvaro González, Feb 28 '13 at 10:41
Possible duplicate, see [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9574130/file-get-contents-failed-to-open-stream-http-request-failed-http-1-1-404-not) — juco, Feb 28 '13 at 10:50

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '13 at 10:40

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Remove warning suppression
Turn on error reporting
Check the messages in error_log You should see detailed error message instead of "Oops. Error." Then you will know why it doesn't work

answered Feb 28 '13 at 10:40

peter.svintsitskiy

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Then try to google error message. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/697472/file-get-contents-returning-failed-to-open-stream-http-request-failed – peter.svintsitskiy Feb 28 '13 at 10:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 28 '13 at 10:41

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According to manual page . A URL can be used as a filename with this function if the fopen wrappers have been enabled. Did you really check if every url return false and gave error. Then obviously you need to check settings.

answered Feb 28 '13 at 10:41

kuldeep.kamboj

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