Problem printing PHP cursor

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Problem printing PHP cursor

I am trying to print an external HTML website using curl, but when I go to print html, I just get a bunch of bad characters:

D\ÓLþ¢GÎ–´ï!ñ{HÑ,Jþ»H¹§L+÷53j?‰²î¡<‘*tÜe÷uÖbÃ¬ê~Æô¬²c˜‹§ ~áäÆL#f?â¶ŠªþU™á˜ÉÉOæ{^¤ëaÀ Tê"1Û¨Dtî’œxˆk‘:@ŽD5î:'¶e\*³q‘×¸`…±¾ôäó÷ð1j7þä‘åQ6®9bcxã„A2ã—-ÇøüåÉò÷2{ÂÐeæ¡¢Ç™ŒÄg©Az!Ø¡>Â±z×šÂ+;f RZÛÝ€ížáÒžHa¬¢Æ'ë•ñ þ=Ð=ºtyšÖâå'ÇpžÄ¦ÆN½€5½roåðFe¹)ˆš`ØnhŠy(GÆÔ} Bu7H¥JzÐ iVê÷áÆ"øG>6HÿUµÞhµj YH-ÌaaEÚx±‰…Êâ£-ûeÎqCÆLÌåã˜Ž‰†LÐÆM I]€a)Ï.$—ÅH••£ ŒŒ’ªÉ;cŽc(i´¥!I]‹€„³tFc^ë'€e±øÉ_øß

Here is my code:

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.thesite.com/");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec ($curl);
curl_close ($curl);
print $result;

Any help would be great,

Thank!

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user580523 May 20, '11 at 1:15

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dkamins · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-20T04:32:43+0000

If the answer is gzip'd, you can use this:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip');

See: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

To find out non gzip'd, check the headers (see CURLOPT_HEADER).

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