CURL Redirect Problem

[dandyto]

Hello! I have a problem trying to redirect with curl.

My website is www.tgptrades.net.
It's a trades center. Read it and you will undestrand my problem.

I want now to add a new module that will let me add external sites.

For this to become possible, I have to send to those sites, visits with my referer (http://www.tgptrades.net)

I manage visits form a lot of sites with my out.php file.

I've tryed with this code, but it does not redirect to the URL like header("Location: $url"). The url in the address bar is still my test.php page, and the <BASE> is "localhost", not the url host.

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.tgptrades.net/");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

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Any idea on how can I redirect a visit to a given url and make that site recive MY site as referer??

Thank you
Dandy

[bpat1434]

I would say do this:

<?php
$referer = "http://www.tgptrades.net/";
$url = "some URL";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
?>

If that doesn't work for you, try printing out the curl_exe($ch) line to see what result you get. So your code would be:

<?php
$referer = "http://www.tgptrades.net/";
$url = "some URL";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

print $result;
?>

~Brett

[dandyto]

Brett! Thank you so much for answer my post!

The problem I have with this code is that the explorer reads the html (and with the referer I setted), but it does not read the correct images!

If I try with:

<?
$referer = "http://www.tgptrades.net/";
$url = "http://afollar.com.ar";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

print $result;
?>

it prints this:

It is the html of afollar.com.ar but reading the images in my host.
I can fix it printing a <BASE> tag, but I also want the address bar to change, just if it was the header("Location: [url]http://....[/url]") function.

Any idea on how to reach ir with some other lines of curl?

Thanks!
Dandy

[bpat1434]

I get a perfect redirection when I visit it. Although I would remove the link seeing as it's an adult site and you don't have any checks on it yet. If I go to your site, click on an image, it redirects me to your page, which redirects me to another site, and the URL changes.

In order to mask it, you manually have to set it up with the registrar I believe, otherwise, it won't work.

It would help if I better understood what you were trying to do. Take some time to write out a bsaic outline of what you want to do here. Then I'll see if I can't help you further. Something like:

• User visits domain.com

• User clicks link on domain.com

• Link links to domain2.com?url=newurl

• domain2.com interprets new url

• User is directed to new url

• New url address is masked to be domain2.com

Something like that where I can see what you want done logically. Thanks.

~Brett

[dandyto]

Yes! You did understad correctly!

Check this example where I was working width.

http://www.tgptrades.net/prueba_x.php

This document has this code:

<?
$referer = "http://www.tgptrades.net/";
$url = "http://afollar.com.ar";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
?>

As you can see, I'm forcing the url to http://www.afollar.com.ar.
In this case this document prueba_x.php is similar to the original file out.php (which analizes where to send the visit)

Don't pay attention to the redirections. Those are caused by the 404 document I've programmed, I guess.

Check the difference between http://www.afollar.com.ar and http://www.tgptrades.net/prueba_x.php

You'll see what i'm talking about.

my ICQ is 278477532.
Please add me to your list so we can talk about it more specificcaly.

Thanks a lot!
Dandy

[bpat1434]

Sorry, I don't use ICQ. I use AIM, MSN, Yahoo!.

Umm... I see what you mean. I haven't had problems like this before. I would suggest you ask the cURL listproc at curl.haxx.se and see what they have to say. Normally it does what you expect it.

What is the problem with using the header() redirect?

~Brett

[bpat1434]

Nevermind. With some slight digging over at curl.haxx.se, I now understand the following:

You are running your script out.php which "redirects" to the other website. Well now that it's doing that, your script is still executing. So the URL will stay on the script that is executing (out.php). The only way to get the URL to change is to send the Location: header.

Perhaps you can do something like:

<?php
$referer = "http://www.tgptrades.net/";
$url = "http://afollar.com.ar";

$header = "Location: ".$url."\r\n";
// May need to change \r\n to \n

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
?>

The line that has CURLOPT_HEADER may also need to be changed to CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST.

Hope that helps.

~Brett

[dandyto]

Mmmm.. I think this code doesn't work either.

What is the problem with using the header() redirect?

If I use header() I cannot pass the referer I wish.

Ok, Brett! I don't want to bother you anymore.
You've been allready too much helpfull and I thank you for that.

I'll keep investigating more about curl and what can I do with it.
I guess, I finally will reach what I want using javascript or similar toghether CURL.

Thanks a lot for your help!
Dandy