On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Patrick Kuebler wrote:

> I have a URL like https://www.myhost.com/servlet/return?id=1234 which
> provides me a reference to an image file. Now I want to copy this file with
> PHP on my server. The copy() and fopen() functions don´t work in the PHP
> version that I run (4.2.3) because of the https. So I hoped I can do this
> with CURL, but I don´t know how. The example showed on php.net doesn´t
> really work, the fopen() functions alway throws errors.

First, get the HTML that "reference" the image.

Then, figure out the full URL to the image and use the curl functions to
download it.

One of the PHP examples should tell you how to download the image
succesfully:

        http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/php/examples/

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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