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PHP Curl accessing file always show 403 error

I am trying to access a JSON file through Curl but it always shows a 403 forbidden error.

I am using Cloudflare on my site.

Here is the code, only else block is running.

I can access this JSON through browser and FTP there is no error but through Curl and wget it shows 403.

$url = "https://example.com/pub/media/sample.json";
            
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'User-Agent: curl/7.39.0');

$result = curl_exec($ch);
$code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

curl_close($ch);

if ($code == 200) {
    $status = true;
} else {
    $status = false;
}
curl_close($ch);
        
if ($status){
    echo 'sucess';
}
else{
    echo  $code.' My File Error '. $url;
    
}
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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    This fixed my issue.

    I was using Curl on my server to access files but it was not allowing Curl or WGET to access any file and Cloudflare was blocking all requests.

    I went to Cloudflare and whitelisted the my server own IP in

    Security -> Web Application Firewall (WAF)

  2. 0

    If you’re using cURL to access a JSON file and getting a 403 Forbidden error, it could be because the server is preventing requests from cURL. Here are some points for you to look into and try.

    1. User-Agent Header : Verify the correct setting for the User-Agent header. Requests that contain a suspicious User-Agent header or don’t provide one are sometimes blocked by servers, including Cloudflare. Take off the "User-Agent:" prefix from the CURLOPT_USERAGENT option in your code:

      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, ‘curl/7.39.0’);

    2. Cookies and headers : Certain websites might not allow access without certain cookies or headers. Curl can be used to attempt to duplicate browser headers. As an example

      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
      ‘User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3’,
      ‘Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,/;q=0.8′,
      ‘Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9’,
      ));
      Note: Depending on what your browser sends, modify the headers.

    3. Verify the Cloudflare Security Preferences, Cloudflare Rate Limitation, and Access Restrictions.

    4. follow this link : https://copyprogramming.com/howto/curl-gives-403-error

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