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PHP getimagesize - Failed to open stream. Bad request

I am getting the following error:

getimagesize(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/570d03d02b8dde8b2642afca/570f74e87c65e4819dec6812/57272dbfb6aa606f78a5d8b5/1470397291105/4XTRYCK3.jpg): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request

The image opens without problems in my browser.

Does anyone understand why this fails?

Solution

  • Squarespace is rejecting any connection where the User-Agent header is not a web browser. This includes CURL and getimagesize.

    You can set the user-agent header by inserting this into your code:

    ini_set('user_agent','Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0)');