file_get_contents – failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
I was recently wrote Facebook application using graph API , In this case my application need to update settings in developer (www.developers.facebook.com).
The URL was like this
https://graph.facebook.com/131061730397xxx?page_tab_default_name=Personaliti rakan2&page_tab_url=http://domain.com/fbapps/v5/001&secure_page_tab_url=https:/domain.com/fbapps/v5/?id=001&privacy_policy_url=https://domain.com/fbapps/v5/privacy-policy.htm&website_url=http://domain.com/fbapps/v5/001&method=post&access_token=131061730397177|SF7i4WLEeqLEM2TQrc6wiTGDfET
If you try the URL in normal browser it can run without problems but when you run the URL using file_get_contents it would produce 404 errors.
Warning: file_get_contents(xxxx): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/mahadir/fbapps/index.php on line 35
Actually this errors came out because of the parameter in the URL is separated, if you looked carefully at
page_tab_default_name=Personaliti rakan2
you could see that there is a space between it.
So the solution is quite easy, you just need url_encode the parameter itself.
<?php
$page_tab_default_name = urlencode("Personaliti rakan2");
$page_tab_url = urlencode("http://domain.com/fbapps/v5/001");
$secure_page_tab_url = urlencode("https://domain.com/fbapps/v5/?id=001") ;
$privacy_policy_url = urlencode("https://domain.com/fbapps/v5/privacy-policy.htm");
$url = "https://graph.facebook.com/".$appid."?page_tab_default_name=".$page_tab_default_name."&page_tab_url=".$page_tab_url."&secure_page_tab_url=".$secure_page_tab_url."&privacy_policy_url=".$privacy_policy_url."&website_url=".$page_tab_url."&method=post&".$access_token;
echo file_get_contents($url);
?>
I hope this solution can save out your time on troubleshooting. 🙂
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