In cases where server configuration issues prevent access to JSON output, what alternative approaches can be taken to retrieve the data effectively?

If server configuration issues prevent access to JSON output, an alternative approach to retrieve the data effectively is to use cURL to make a request to the server and retrieve the data in a different format, such as XML or plain text. Once the data is retrieved, it can be parsed and processed accordingly. 

<?php
$url = 'http://example.com/data'; // URL to retrieve data from
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// Process the retrieved data (e.g. parse XML or plain text)
// Code to parse and process the data goes here
?>

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server configuration JSON output data retrieval alternative approaches error types

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