How can you ensure that the fetched web page is displayed as-is, without modifying links or content, when using cURL in PHP?

When using cURL in PHP to fetch a web page, the fetched content may be modified by cURL to make it more readable or usable. To ensure that the fetched web page is displayed as-is without modifying links or content, you can set the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option to true and then echo out the fetched content without any further processing. 

<?php

$url = "https://www.example.com";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$output = curl_exec($ch);

echo $output;

curl_close($ch);
?>

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cURL PHP web page links content

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