http request through a proxy server

[jobykjoseph]

How can we create a program to visit a website through a proxy server?

[MVied]

CURL is probably the easiest solution. Here is an example using cURL. You can read more about it here.

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.example.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, 'fakeproxy.com:1080');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, 'user:password');
$data = curl_exec();
curl_close($ch);

[jobykjoseph]

I was using a proxy ip instead of the domain name. But it does not work for me.

[MVied]

I could never get it to work myself, but as far as I know, this is the only option there is. Let me know if you can get it to work.

[Manuz]

Hey,

1. What is the result that you got?
2. Add

$data = curl_exec() or die("Curl exe failed");

to check out the error.
3. Do print_r($data); and look at the response.

[jobykjoseph]

The following is the code that i had used

$ch = curl_init();
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.myurl.com');
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, 1);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, '60.217.232.51:80');
      //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, 'user:password');
      $data = curl_exec($ch) or die("Curl exe failed");
      curl_close($ch);

I got the output "Curl exe failed"

[Manuz]

Hey,
Just try this,

$ch = curl_init();  
	  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.google.com");  
	  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);  
	  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, '***.***.*.***:****');
 
       // Turn off the server and peer verification (TrustManager Concept).  
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);  
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE);  
     
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);  
       // Get response from the server.  
       $httpResponse = curl_exec($ch) or die("Curl exe failed");

[jobykjoseph]

When i use this code after making necessary changes in the proxy, there is no output on my browser. But my proxy is working properly when it is used in my browser.

[Manuz]

So now the curl function is executed.Now replace the url with ur one and do the rquirements.