PHP: Curl

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<?php 
// create a new curl resource
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.github.com");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

// grab URL and pass it to the browser
$filedata = curl_exec($ch); 
echo '<pre>';var_dump($filedata);
// close curl resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);