RE: [PHP] Pulling webpages - may be a weird question :)

Some of us live in countries where these proxy servers are banned. I cannot access anonymiser, safesurf or any of the other open proxies. sometimes accessing cnn is useful, so I wrote some quick and very nasty code to retrieve and view webpages - also encrypts the url as well - China sometimes bans via url contents, so www.someserver.com/proxy/www.cnn.com would be banned as well. (Chinese Government went through a phase a few weeks ago where even google was banned, that was terrible, I rely on google every day!). See code below (it's not good, but it works - text only) I use it on my Shanghai site www.shanghaiguide.com in the proxy page - www.shanghaiguide.com/proxy <?php function ROT ($string,$n=13){ for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($string); $i++) { $string[$i] = chr(ord($string[$i]) + $n); } return $string; } if (!isset($URL)) { ?> <form action="<?php print $PHP_SELF;?>" method=post> <input name="URL" size=50 value=""> <p><input type=submit value="Go"> </form> <br> No Graphics will be displayed, only a href style links are processed, proxy is alpha version, but hey its better than nothing<br> <?php } else { if (isset($ENC)) { $URL =ROT ($URL,-1); } //Check prefix badly if (substr (strtoupper($URL),0,4) == "HTTP") { //Probly http } else { $URL="http://".$URL; } if (isset($URLPATH)){ if (strpos ($URLPATH,"p://")) { $URL=""; //New Site = strip out the http:// and replace //To Do if (substr($URLPATH,-3)=='gif') { Header("Content-type: image/gif"); } if (substr($URLPATH,-3)=='jpg') { Header("Content-type: image/jpg"); } } //If url ends in / and urlpath starts in / strip url trailing slash. if ((substr($URL,-1) =="/" ) && (substr($URLPATH,0,1)=="/")) { $URL=substr ($URL,0,strlen($URL)-1); } } else { $URLPATH=""; if (substr($URL,-1) !="/"){ $URL.="/"; } } //$URL =ROT($URL,1); //print "Encrypted URL=". $URL; if (!$NOHDR) { print "URL =".$URL; //Show Browse Form Again ?> <form action="<?php print $PHP_SELF;?>" method=post> <input name="URL" size=50 value="<?php print $URL;?>"> <input type=submit value="Go"> </form> <hr> <?php } @$up = fopen($URL.$URLPATH,"r"); if ($up){ while (!feof($up)) { $results.= fread($up, 1024); } fclose($up); unset($URLPATH); } $URL=ROT($URL,1); //$results = str_replace("href=\"http://", "href=" $scriptpath "?url="$url, $pagedata); $results = eregi_replace ("href=\"" , "href=\"$PHP_SELF?ENC=1&URL=$URL&URLPATH=",$results); $results = eregi_replace ("src=\"","src=\"blank.gif?$PHP_SELF?ENC=1&NOHDR=1&URL=$URL&URLPATH=",$resul ts); print $results; } ?> There are better ways to do this, James Marshall wrote CGIProxy, but this is the only one I know that also encrypts urls. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Harrington [mailto:dan@tudan.net] Sent: August 29, 2001 8:52 AM To: daniel james; Jeff Lewis; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Pulling webpages - may be a weird question :) http://www.anonymiser.com > -----Original Message----- > From: daniel james [mailto:cgi_guy1313@yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 12:23 PM > To: Jeff Lewis; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Pulling webpages - may be a weird question :) > > > try readfile('http://www.somesite.com/'); > > it creates a mirror; it might bypass the firewall, > depending on how the blocking software is keyed to > activate. > > -dj > --- Jeff Lewis <jeff@hyrum.net> wrote: > > I was sitting here at work (working of course!) > > thinking about how some sites are blocked etc from > > viewing... Is it possible with PHP to do something > > like this: > > > > Have a page where I can create kind of a middle man. > > I mean the PHP can be hosted on my server, it goes > > to the site I'd want to view (lets say www.php.net). > > It then relays it to my browser but as if it is > > coming from my server. So can it grab the pages, > > temp write them and server them over to me? > > > > I know it seems kind of strange but I am curious > > about it.... > > > > Jeff > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net