miraclemaker
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Is there any way to set the IP address of where a POST is coming from using cURL? I suspect the answer is no, but I thought I'd better ask in case anyone knows better.
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cURL question
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sleipnir214
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"set the IP address of where a POST is coming from"?
I'm sorry, but your question doesn't make any sense to me. How can you set the IP address of an input to a system which is basically client-driven?
You can get the IP address of a connection -- it'll be in $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] ( Want the best answers? Ask the best questions: TANSTAAFL!
I'm sorry, but your question doesn't make any sense to me. How can you set the IP address of an input to a system which is basically client-driven?
You can get the IP address of a connection -- it'll be in $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] ( Want the best answers? Ask the best questions: TANSTAAFL!
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miraclemaker
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Of course, the IP wouldn't be correct, but I wanted to set it in the same way you can set the referer using CURLOPT_REFERER
sleipnir214
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What exactly are you trying to do? Want the best answers? Ask the best questions: TANSTAAFL!
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miraclemaker
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Simulate a POST to a page where the post must come from a certain IP.
sleipnir214
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I would, in that case, install at the beginning of the script you are testing a line which sets the value of $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] to what you need.
Remove the line, of course, before you go to production. Want the best answers? Ask the best questions: TANSTAAFL!
Remove the line, of course, before you go to production. Want the best answers? Ask the best questions: TANSTAAFL!
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miraclemaker
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I'm not in control of the page I am posting to, so setting the value of REMOTE_ADDR wouldn't have any effect on the remote page would it?
So what you're trying to do is spoof your IP?... you made it sound like you were communicating between two of your pages and wanted the IP to be read as a particular value... but you actually want to just output a fake IP, right? I'm not sure CURL is the tool you're looking for... for that matter, I'm not sure this is something you can do within your program, but rather may need to be setup on your computer before you run your script... but I'm not so good at spoofing IP's so I may be way off.
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miraclemaker
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Yes that's right, sorry if I wasn't clear. Thanks for the advice.
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