note 81036 deleted from ref.curl by nlopess

Note Submitter: Ron ---- This note points to Ojas Ojasvi's post on his disguise_curl function. No additional code was added and he changed the author's name from Ron (me) to Ojas Ojasvi and the date. My original note with a previous date and the exact code was at this location. php.net/manual/en/curl.constants.php#76914 Here is the original code just for posterity's sake. <? /* * Author: Ron * Released: August 4, 2007 * Description: An example of the disguise_curl() function in order to grab contents from a website while remaining fully camouflaged by using a fake user agent and fake headers. */ $url = 'http://www.ericgiguere.com/tools/http-header-viewer.html'; // disguises the curl using fake headers and a fake user agent. function disguise_curl($url) { $curl = curl_init(); // Setup headers - I used the same headers from Firefox version 2.0.0.6 // below was split up because php.net said the line was too long. :/ $header[0] = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,"; $header[0] .= "text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5"; $header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0"; $header[] = "Connection: keep-alive"; $header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300"; $header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"; $header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5"; $header[] = "Pragma: "; // browsers keep this blank. curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)'); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.google.com'); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate'); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); $html = curl_exec($curl); // execute the curl command curl_close($curl); // close the connection return $html; // and finally, return $html } // uses the function and displays the text off the website $text = disguise_curl($url); echo $text; ?> Thank you.