I'm geting some strange behaviour trying to pull 3rd party file contents using CURL or file_get_contents, pasrt of the page is read, but it stops at a random position... no error though (timeout etc).
Probably easiest to see if I give the full example!:
Using the following very bsic script to read a full URL and return the contents works just fine, with the full content of the page (less some external css etc) in a mater of a second or two:
<?php
set_time_limit(180);
$page = file_get_contents('http://www.fantasyleague.com/Classic/Stats/playerlist.aspx?dpt=3');
echo $page;
?>
However, if we change to
<?php
set_time_limit(180);
$page = file_get_contents('http://www.fantasyleague.com/Classic/Stats/playerlist.aspx?dpt=4');
echo $page;
?>
it takes ages to run, and eventually returns part of the page, but not all. It's not consistent, but it generally ends with either "A Westwood AV 3.6 12" or "show", a bit further up the page.
If you look at the two URLs, you can see they are basically prettu much the same. And this behaviour has onyl just started occuring, up until a day or two ago, both worked fine.
Any ideas? I can provide any further info I've missed out!
Edit:
An example of where the file finishes... original file contains:
<div class="right">
<a id="Playerlist_help_button" class="button left" href="#"><div>Show help</div></a>
<a id="Playerlist_filters_button" class="button left" href="#"><div>Show filters</div></a>
<a class="button left" href="PlayerListPrintable.aspx" target="_blank"><div>Printable Version</div></a>
<br class="clear" />
</div>
but the retrieved data stops at:
<div class="right">
<a id="Playerlist_help_button" class="button left" href="#"><div>Show help</div></a>
<a id="Playerlist_filters_button" class="button left" href="#"><div>Show
or the other place it often fails is:
<td><div class="chilli normal" /></td>
<td>12</td>
<td>0</td>
which becomes:
<td><div class="chilli normal" /></td>
<td>12</td>