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Hi i am using the following code to transfer files that start with m4v, however they are not copying over. i was wondering if cURL is able to copy these files?

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php

/**

* Initialize the cURL session

*/

$ch = curl_init();

/**

* Set the URL of the page or file to download.

*/





$filename = 'http://example.com/file.m4v';



$finfo = explode('.',$filename);

$fileSuffix = array_pop($finfo);



curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $filename);

/**

* Create a new file

*/



$fp = fopen('r.'.$fileSuffix, 'w');

/**

* Ask cURL to write the contents to a file

*/



curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);

/**

* Execute the cURL session

*/



curl_exec ($ch);

/**

* Close cURL session and file

*/



curl_close ($ch);



fclose($fp);



print '<a href="r.'.$fileSuffix.'"/>';

?>

A file is a file is a file for curl, it doesn't matter what type. I suggest adding in some error checking and reporting to see what's going wrong.

Offtopic: I'd also suggest using pathinfo($filename, PATHINFO_EXTENSION) to grab the file extension rather than the explode/array_pop combo that you use.

Maybe you can try it with the CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER flag.

I wonder if you can directly access http://example.com/file.m4v directly? Otherwise you might need to add cookies or referral or something.