note 102793 added to function.curl-setopt

Force Curl Request To Go To A Particular IP Address Yes, there is a method of passing an IP address to curl. Excellent for services with multiple IP addresses and also to take DNS out of the equation for testing/debugging. function fetch_page($url, $host_ip = NULL) { $ch = curl_init(); if (!is_null($host_ip)) { $urldata = parse_url($url); // Ensure we have the query too, if there is any... if (!empty($urldata['query'])) $urldata['path'] .= "?".$urldata['query']; // Specify the host (name) we want to fetch... $headers = array("Host: ".$urldata['host']); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); // create the connecting url (with the hostname replaced by IP) $url = $urldata['scheme']."://".$host_ip.$urldata['path']; } curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $result = curl_exec ($ch); curl_close ($ch); return $result; } ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 188.220.38.106 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/102793 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102793/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102793/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102793/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102793/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102793/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102793/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102793 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/102793 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php