Forward to IP

kazer

Can I use PHP to completely forward someone to a different IP address and port?

IE: i set up mod rewrite to send requests from redirect.domain.com to the internal file /www/redirect/index.php

then... index.php forwards to an IP:port.

I'm pretty sure this cannot be done... but I wanted to ask.

Additionally, if this cannot be done with PHP, can it be done purely with mod_rewrite?
I have been looking around for awhile and haven't turned anything up.

::Kaz

PS: I do not have the option of configuring virtualhosts directives.

drawmack

<?Php
header('Location: 127.0.0.1:23');
?>

kazer

I'm not forwarding to another website.
IE: say I wanted to forward it to a telnet connection.

telnet blah.domain.com
connect to 64.83.235.207:23

drawmack

I think that fsockopen and fread could accomplish that

kazer

I was hoping for a forward rather than a proxy. All the data would be parsing through the socket on my webhosts machine.

I think the whole concept is fundamentally wrong here though. You can't ping blah.domain.com and expect to have it return a different IP address.

I'll give that a try, but it isn't the ideal situation.

::Kaz