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I have a URL that when called generate a very heavy XML Feed like:
www.domain.com/generateXML.php?id=products
when i call this URL in the browser i can see a very long XML file generated containing different information..i want to copy this all output to a local file on my server so that i can use that file's info for different tasks on my site...PHP Code:
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