# file\_get\_contents() gives slightly altered file contents
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/file-get-contents-gives-slightly-altered-file-contents/277414
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [December 11, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/file-get-contents-gives-slightly-altered-file-contents/277414 "2008-12-11T18:22:22Z")
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### Author:  [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/file-get-contents-gives-slightly-altered-file-contents/277414/1 "2008-12-11T18:22:22Z")
I have a simple echo of a website’s source:
```php
echo file_get_contents('http://www.threadless.com/blogs/blogs');
```
A small portion of the output is a little fishy:
```auto
1 2 3 4 ... 2,827 2,828 (84,833 results!)
```
When viewing the page source of the actual page in a browser, that same area is:
```auto
1 2 3 4 ... 2,827 2,828 (84,833 results!)
```
[](http://imageshack.us)
The file\_get\_contents() actually returns a slightly different contents than the actual page! The function seems to have added “_?token=randomString_” to all of the page traversal URL’s. Since I’m working on a web crawler, this is a big no no. What’s going on?