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tobias
tobias

Reputation: 2362

Forwarding http GET via php

My Android app downloads images from my webspace. I have no ssl. I don't want the user to see where the images are stored. The folder with images should be secured via .htaccess. So I thought to send the GET request to a php script and it collects the image and responses it to the android client.

Can someone give me a hint how to do the forwarding?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 92

Answers (2)

Jim
Jim

Reputation: 22656

A good way to do this is to keep the images outside the webroot. This way they can't be accessed by going to a url. In the php you can then do something like:

//Check username/whatever

//Decide what file we want
$theFile = getTheFile();

//Display the file
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
readfile('../not/web/accessible/'.$theFile);
die();

Upvotes: 1

Josef Kufner
Josef Kufner

Reputation: 2989

To download something from somewhere else use curl. You really should cache downloaded content on your server. Reconstructing GET request from $_GET and $_SERVER variables should be easy, just follow examples on linked page.

But I think you want to look at "reverse proxy". There are existing solution of enterprise quality for this task.

Upvotes: 0

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