PHP curl getting 404 while in browser all is fine

Question

http://www.rlsnet.ru/tn_alf_letter_DF.htm - I have this url, in the browser it works fine, but If I make a request using this:

$url = 'http://www.rlsnet.ru/tn_alf_letter_DF.htm';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
print_r(curl_getinfo($ch));
exit;

I get this result:

Array ( [url] => http://www.rlsnet.ru/tn_alf_letter_DF.htm [content_type] => text/html; charset=windows-1251 [http_code] => 404 [header_size] => 214 [request_size] => 72 [filetime] => -1 [ssl_verify_result] => 0 [redirect_count] => 0 [total_time] => 14.925294 [namelookup_time] => 5.401249 [connect_time] => 5.643545 [pretransfer_time] => 5.643608 [size_upload] => 0 [size_download] => 87314 [speed_download] => 5850 [speed_upload] => 0 [download_content_length] => -1 [upload_content_length] => 0 [starttransfer_time] => 12.941717 [redirect_time] => 0 )

the http_code is 404, why this happens?

UPDATED:

$url = 'http://www.rlsnet.ru/tn_alf_letter_DF.htm';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.rlsnet.ru');
$data = curl_exec($ch);
print_r(curl_getinfo($ch));
exit;

still getting 404

Answer 1

It works for me with your code.

Try curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 0); and curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 0) it could be a problem of timeout based on the connection time you posted from print_r

What's your curl version? mine is 7.22.0

Answer 2

Same code gives me [http_code] => 200

Maybe there's a problem in your curl installation.

Try to check your phpinfo()

cURL support enabled

cURL Information 7.30.0

Age 3

Features

AsynchDNS No

Debug No

GSS-Negotiate No

IDN Yes

IPv6 Yes

Largefile Yes

NTLM Yes

SPNEGO No

SSL Yes

SSPI No

krb4 No

libz Yes

CharConv No

Protocols dict, file, ftp, ftps, gopher, http, https, imap, imaps, pop3, pop3s, rtsp, smtp, smtps, telnet, tftp

Host x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.2

SSL Version OpenSSL/1.0.1e

ZLib Version 1.2.8

Answer 3

Try to set User-Agent and Referer:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.rlsnet.ru');