How to file_get_contents a gzip page ?

[eluser]pistolPete[/eluser]
This problem is described here plus a workaround is suggested:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=22967

But there are other possibilities:

Try to send a HTTP request without

Code:

Accept-Encoding: gzip

You can find an example here: http://php.net/fsockopen

Alternatively you could use cURL:

Code:

curl_setopt($handle,CURLOPT_ENCODING , 'gzip');

Or use one of the user contributed gzdecode() functions here: http://php.net/gzencode