<p>I'm retrieving a gzipped web page via curl, but when I output the retrieved content to the browser I just get the raw gzipped data. How can I decode the data in PHP?</p>

<p>One method I found was to write the content to a tmp file and then ...</p>

<pre><code>$f = gzopen($filename,"r");
$content = gzread($filename,250000);
gzclose($f);
</code></pre>

<p>.... but man, there's got to be a better way.</p>

<p>Edit: This isn't a file, but a gzipped html page returned by a web server.</p>

I use curl and:
```
```
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING , "gzip");
```
```