PHP

HTTPS GET - Download HTML or any Text Content to a String

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The QuickGetStr method is the simplest way to retrieve a text resource from a web server using an HTTP GET request. The text resource can be HTML, XML, JSON, text, or anything other type of file composed of readable text.

Chilkat2 PHP

<?php

use Chilkat2\Http;

// This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$http = new Http();

// Send the HTTP GET and return the content in a string.
try {
    $str = $http->QuickGetStr('https://www.chilkatsoft.com/helloWorld.json');
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo $str, "\n";

$str = $http->QuickGetStr('https://www.chilkatsoft.com/helloWorld.txt');
echo $str, "\n";

$str = $http->QuickGetStr('https://www.chilkatsoft.com/helloWorld.xml');
echo $str, "\n";