curl reading in bytes

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I am trying to convert following small code to curl but I am not getting successful. Any help please?

Basically that code is reading file in 8kb parts.

<?php
$handle = fopen("http://www.example.com/", "rb");
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
  $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
fclose($handle);
?>