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# PEAR_REST::retrieveData()

PEAR_REST::retrieveData() -- Retrieve a remote REST resource

## Synopsis

    require_once '/REST.php';

``string|array PEAR_REST::retrieveData` (string $url, array|false [$accept = false], bool [$forcestring = false])`

## Description

retrieve the contents of a remote resource.

## Parameter

string `$url`

  full URL to this resource

array|false `$accept`

  contents of the accept-encoding header

boolean `$forcestring`

  if `TRUE`, xml will be returned as a string, otherwise, xml will be parsed using PEAR_XMLParser

## Throws

throws PEAR_Error objects are returned on error.

## Note

This function can not be called statically.

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