Are you getting garbled values when using file_get_contents fetching an external URL (website scrapping using php) and wondering what went wrong ? The content is appearing to have wierd characters instead of normal HTML output because of GZIP output encoding by the website you are fetching.

 <?php echo file_get_contents("http://www.example.com"); ?>

You can fix this issue in multiple ways.

Method 1 : Accept-Encoding

The default settings on my Sony Vaio CW Series laptop had wrong Gamma settings, therefore the color reproduction on the screen was slightly on the redish side.

The setting on the Display on Control Panel was not getting saved due to some reason (Windows 7). This issue can be resolved by changing the Gamma setting on the Nvidia Control Panel as shown highlighted in the image below. The Control Panel can be accessed from the desktop by Right-Click on the desktop.

When using PERL and WWW::Mechanize, your script can stop if there is some error in GETing a URL (such as 404 Not Found, 403 Permission Denied). Instead of resuming, the script terminates. If you want the script to continue resuming, you have to pass

autocheck => 0

in the Mechanize class constructor as shown below

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck => 0);

ApacheSolr is an indexing server from apache. It is written in Java and can be used to make search pages on your website. Most Websites use a MySQL database to store its data and standard MySQL search using SQL or FULLTEXT Searching by MySQL. But with ApacheSolr we can not only search but also improve the search results. Solr recognizes plurals and similar words like read, reading or A-DATA, adata etc. Therefore Solr returns more efficient search results.