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Jawad Malik
Jawad Malik

Reputation: 73

Trying to get response using curl exec

I'm trying to get a response.

Using curl_exec works fine, but the problem is that it gets a response with different IP.

I want to get response from client or user IP, rather than server IP.

$URL = "https://drive.google.com/get_video_info?docid=".$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"];
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 2);
$response_data = urldecode(urldecode(curl_exec($curl)));

Upvotes: 0

Views: 840

Answers (2)

hanshenrik
hanshenrik

Reputation: 21463

get the client to install curl on its own computer, and run the code there, or get the client to install a proxy on its computer, then proxy your connection through the client's with CURLOPT_PROXY & co.

Upvotes: 0

Jaime
Jaime

Reputation: 6091

The curl runs on the server and not in the client. Any HTTP command issued by curl will use the server IP as the requester.

  • Depending on the service you are invoking, probably you can use the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header used in the Internet Proxies.

    $URL = "https://drive.google.com/get_video_info?docid=".$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"];
$curl = curl_init();

// set the command as requested by the client IP
curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array('X-Forwarded-For: '. $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']));      

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 2);
$response_data = urldecode(urldecode(curl_exec($curl)));

The service you are invoking may use the header to determine the ip of the originator. Using the X-Forwarded-For will not work with all the services and server-side frameworks.

  • If you want to make a request from the client, probably you need to use javascript (e.g. by using XMLHttpRequest or some functions in JQuery or Angular) to make the request.

You may check:

Upvotes: 1

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