$url = 'C:/Users/***/Downloads/1/1/Hayden_Scott-Baron.html';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
$contents = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
var_dump($contents);
или так:$contents = file_get_contents($url);
var_dump($contents);
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