如何从文本文件url中读取内容

Question

Im having difficulty getting the contents of text file when Im trying to get the contents of that text file from a url.

Say my text file url is http://example.com/files/text.txt .

Whenever I try using file_get_contents(' http://example.com/files/text.txt '), it returns the actual source html code of that url. Is there a way to just read whats actually written in the text file itself? I do know that to do what im trying to is is very easy with just using the file path, however the files im trying to get sit on another server. Any help with this? Thanks

Answer 1

If you have access to said server you could use fopen function, however that requires fopen to be enabled cross domain via php.ini. Also in your regards it could be the headers are returning as html as opposed to plain text.