Writting a simple proxy in PHP

I would like to forward on the server side (also called "proxy" or
"server-side redirect") some queries that get to my PHP script. A naive
approach is to do:

print(implode("", file("http://localhost:8090" . $REQUEST_URI)));

Where http://localhost:8090 is the address I want to proxy to. But of
course, this only works for simple GET requests. It does not forward headers
(like Authentication), and won't work if the request is a POST.

Has anyone a suggestion on how I could implement a better proxy? I am not
looking for a perfect solution. Something that would forward headers and
handle posts would be good enough.

Alex
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Alessandro Vernet wrote:
> I would like to forward on the server side (also called "proxy" or
> "server-side redirect") some queries that get to my PHP script. A naive
> approach is to do:
>
> print(implode("", file("http://localhost:8090" . $REQUEST_URI)));
>
> Where http://localhost:8090 is the address I want to proxy to. But of
> course, this only works for simple GET requests. It does not forward headers
> (like Authentication), and won't work if the request is a POST.
>
> Has anyone a suggestion on how I could implement a better proxy? I am not
> looking for a perfect solution. Something that would forward headers and
> handle posts would be good enough.

if your using apache then you should look at the ProxyPass directive - very hand,
STW or STA for more detailed info.

>
> Alex

Try using cUrl.

On 2/6/07, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote:
> Alessandro Vernet wrote:
> > I would like to forward on the server side (also called "proxy" or
> > "server-side redirect") some queries that get to my PHP script. A naive
> > approach is to do:
> >
> > print(implode("", file("http://localhost:8090" . $REQUEST_URI)));
> >
> > Where http://localhost:8090 is the address I want to proxy to. But of
> > course, this only works for simple GET requests. It does not forward headers
> > (like Authentication), and won't work if the request is a POST.
> >
> > Has anyone a suggestion on how I could implement a better proxy? I am not
> > looking for a perfect solution. Something that would forward headers and
> > handle posts would be good enough.
>
> if your using apache then you should look at the ProxyPass directive - very hand,
> STW or STA for more detailed info.
>
> >
> > Alex
>
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Jochem Maas wrote:
>
> if your using apache then you should look at the ProxyPass directive -
> very hand,
> STW or STA for more detailed info.
>

Jochem,

I went this route. I agree, it is much simpler than trying to hack this in
PHP.

Alex
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Alessandro Vernet wrote:
>
> Jochem Maas wrote:
>> if your using apache then you should look at the ProxyPass directive -
>> very hand,
>> STW or STA for more detailed info.
>>
>
> Jochem,
>
> I went this route. I agree, it is much simpler than trying to hack this in
> PHP.

it's rather a neat way of solving the 'how to run php4 & php5 module on the same
server' problem one often encounters,

I can't take any credit though - that belongs to Rasmus Lerdorf for pointing it out
(and possibly also due to his work on Apache itself - IIRC).

regardless, nice to know you solved your problem (or at least pushed back the urgency -
I guess that one day we'll all have to let go of php4 altogether :-).

>
> Alex