cURL - Return page source code and display as text only

Question

I'm using cURL to get page source. It works great, but when I use

echo '<pre>';
    print_r($source);
echo '</pre>';

to display as text only, the page gets parsed and I end up seeing it as a webpage instead of plain text.

How can I view the remote page as text only?

Brad Peabody · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-23 02:41:07Z

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Your HTML needs to be escaped in what you are outputting, example:

echo '<pre>';
print(htmlspecialchars($source));
echo '</pre>';

answered Aug 23, 2015 at 2:41

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2 Comments

John Smith Over a year ago

Will this safely display ALL code as text no matter what's on the other end of the connection? Image, redirect headers, malicious files or executables?

Brad Peabody Over a year ago

I'm not aware of any way to inject something malicious into that.

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