How to solve cUrl corrupting file during download

Question

I really, really need help as to how to solve this issue I'm having:

Using script:

<?php
    $curl = curl_init();
    $fp = fopen("somefile.zip", "w");
    curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://website.com/test.zip");
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_exec ($curl);
    curl_close ($curl);

I have asked before, and no-one seems to have a solution as to how I solve this... If someone can even tell me why it's happening ie. is it file size, binary transfer etc. I can work with that!

The file ZIP file downloads and creates somefile.zip but the XML file within is partially corrupt.

Sample:

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Answer 1

Can you set CURLOPT_HEADER to 0 and try again?

Edit:

Or try this:

$url  = 'http://website.com/test.zip';
$path = 'somefile.zip';


$ch = curl_init($url);
if($ch === false)
{
    die('Failed to create curl handle');
}

$fp = fopen($path, 'w');

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);

$data = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);