cURL ip address
Ok, so there's no way to safely spoof the ip address of a curl request, but I found a non-safe way, it depends on the server script receiving the request, but it worked for me to trick the API I was making the request to:
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("REMOTE_ADDR: $ip", "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: $ip"));
This won't always work, but in this case it worked for me.
Thanks everyone for the help!
Spoofing an IP address is not something cURL can do. That's a lower-level operation requiring manipulation of raw socket connections.
It doesn't work with curl for me so i found a way around it, I just had to do this and as long as the IP is assigned to your server, then:
echo http_socket::download('http://something.com', '55.55.44.33');
final class http_socket
{
static public function download($url, $bind_ip = false)
{
$components = parse_url($url);
if(!isset($components['query'])) $components['query'] = false;
if(!$bind_ip)
{
$bind_ip = $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'];
}
$header = array();
$header[] = 'GET ' . $components['path'] . ($components['query'] ? '?' . $components['query'] : '');
$header[] = 'Host: ' . $components['host'];
$header[] = 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.7';
$header[] = 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8';
$header[] = 'Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5';
$header[] = 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate';
$header[] = 'Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7';
$header[] = 'Keep-Alive: 300';
$header[] = 'Connection: keep-alive';
$header = implode("\n", $header) . "\n\n";
$packet = $header;
//----------------------------------------------------------------------
// Connect to server
//----------------------------------------------------------------------
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
socket_bind($socket, $bind_ip);
socket_connect($socket, $components['host'], 80);
//----------------------------------------------------------------------
// Send First Packet to Server
//----------------------------------------------------------------------
socket_write($socket, $packet);
//----------------------------------------------------------------------
// Receive First Packet to Server
//----------------------------------------------------------------------
$html = '';
while(1) {
socket_recv($socket, $packet, 4096, MSG_WAITALL);
if(empty($packet)) break;
$html .= $packet;
}
socket_close($socket);
return $html;
}
}