How can developers adapt their code to comply with the allow_url_fopen being set to off by the provider?

When the allow_url_fopen directive is set to off by the provider, developers can use alternative methods to fetch remote resources, such as cURL or file_get_contents with stream contexts. By using these methods, developers can still retrieve data from external sources without relying on allow_url_fopen being enabled. 

// Using cURL to fetch remote data
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://example.com/data.json');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// Using file_get_contents with stream context
$context = stream_context_create(array(
    'http' => array(
        'method' => 'GET',
        'header' => 'Content-Type: application/json'
    )
));
$data = file_get_contents('http://example.com/data.json', false, $context);

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allow_url_fopen PHP code adaptation provider setting security vulnerability

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