Google Charts Through CURL
- by swt83
I have a PHP class that helps me generate URLs for custom charts using Google Chart service. These URLs work fine when I load them in my browser, but I'm trying to pull them using CURL so I can access the charts on secure https websites. Whenever I try and pull a chart via CURL, I get an Error 400 Bad Request. Any idea on how to get around this? Everything I have tried has failed.
$url = urldecode($_GET['url']);
$session = curl_init($url); // Open the Curl session
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); // Don't return HTTP headers
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // Do return the contents of the call
$image = curl_exec($session); // Make the call
#header("Content-Type: image/png"); // Set the content type appropriately
curl_close($session); // And close the session
die($image);
