title: file_get_contents failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 500 Internal > Server Error in
body: <p>I see many questions matching to my issue. But none of them is providing any workable solution. so instead of making complex functionality i need simple solution. Please I dont' want cURL. I've already done a lot with this code.</p>
  
  <p>I'm working on a scraping project and need to load the contents of product revisions from ebay. </p>
  
  <p>I am using PHP function</p>
  
  <pre><code>file_get_contents();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the URL i'm troubling with. </p>
  
  <pre><code>https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemRevisionDetails&amp;item=272908801183
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this file_get_contents(); is working perfectly fine on different URLs but don't know why not on this. </p>
  
  <p>This is the code i'm using.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  $html = file_get_contents('https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemRevisionDetails&amp;item=272908801183');
  echo $html;
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but i'm getting this error.. </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Warning:
    file_get_contents(<a href="https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemRevisionDetails&amp;&amp;item=272908801183" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemRevisionDetails&amp;&amp;item=272908801183</a>):
    failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 500 Internal
    Server Error in
    /Users/samz/Documents/projects/scraping/test.php
    on line 3</p>
  </blockquote>