LinuxQuestions.org - fopen() in PHP

Good question.

It depends, at least in part, on HOW you're using PHP to read the URL.

Here's an example snippet, that uses PHP's built-in "DOMDocument" class:

http://www.softarea51.com/tutorials/..._php.html#code

Code:

<?php



  $doc = new DOMDocument();

  $doc->load('http://www.softarea51.com/rss/windows/Web_Development/XML_CSS_Utilities.xml');

  $arrFeeds = array();

  foreach ($doc->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {

    $itemRSS = array ( 

      'title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue,

      'desc' => $node->getElementsByTagName('description')->item(0)->nodeValue,

      'link' => $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue,

      'date' => $node->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue

      );

    array_push($arrFeeds, $itemRSS);

  }



?>

I believe in this example, the server (www.software51.com) wouldn't see ANY user agent ... because I don't believe DOMDocument->load() writes one in its httpd header.

You can easily verify this by using the above code to access a sample xml document on your own web server, and see what the web server reports (e.g. look at your access_log).