When attempting to access the remote file as an attachment, I am able to retrieve the headers but not the file or its content.
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
// Various methods tried with no success
/*$url = 'http://www.dev-c.com/nativedb/reference.html';
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
$data = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
echo $data;*/
// Similar attempts made here as well
$url = 'http://www.dev-c.com/nativedb/reference.html';
$file = basename($url);
$fp = fopen($file, 'w');
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
?>
Despite trying different approaches, none of the codes were successful. The output is empty and the created file on my webserver remains blank. The file in question: