How do I make my script show fake IP?

[bhumika]

Hi,

I am running a proxy, and my browser(firefox) is set to use it. When I check my ip from browser it's the fake ip. But if I write a php script to fetch data from that same site (where I checked my IP) it shows the real IP. How do I make my script to show the fake IP?

Please help.

Heres my code

include_once 'simple_html_dom.php';
$url = "http://www.showmemyip.com";
   $html = file_get_html($url);
   $ret =  $html->find('span[id=IPAddress]');
   echo $ret[0]."<br/>";

the included file can be found at http://trac.openpolis.it/openpolis/browser/trunk/lib/simple_html_dom.php

[dagon]

your browser is not your web server, how\where is your webserver hosted?

[bhumika]

...is on local machine, running apache.

[bradgrafelman]

Your webserver has no idea that your browser is configured to use a proxy.

Since PHP is executed by your webserver (and not your browser, of course), the proxy is never used by PHP.

[bhumika]

Is there any way for my PHP to use the proxy (when running on local host). Or how can I setup my web server (apache) to use proxy.

[bradgrafelman]

If you use the [man]cURL[/man] extension, you should be able to use the CURLOPT_PROXY option (see [man]curl_setopt/man) to use the proxy instead of making a direct request to the remote server.