Get with curl

get_with_curl.php

<?php
/**
 * Source https://gist.github.com/tineo/5234972
 */
public static function getWithCurl($url)
{
    $curl = curl_init();

    // Setup headers - I used the same headers from Firefox version 2.0.0.6
    // below was split up because php.net said the line was too long. :/
    $header[0] = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,";
    $header[0] .= "text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";
    $header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0";
    $header[] = "Connection: keep-alive";
    $header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300";
    $header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";
    $header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5";
    $header[] = "Pragma: ";
    // browsers keep this blank.


    $referers = array("google.com", "yahoo.com", "msn.com", "ask.com", "live.com");
    $choice = array_rand($referers);
    $referer = "http://" . $referers[$choice] . "";

    $browsers = array("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060918 Firefox/2.0", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506)");
    $choice2 = array_rand($browsers);
    $browser = $browsers[$choice2];

    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $browser);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 7);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

    $data = curl_exec($curl);

    curl_close($curl);

    return $data;
}