Question

I am using a PHP script in Windows to make a curl request to successfully make a SOAP request, and I’m trying to track down exactly how this successful request is made to replicate it in C#.NET.

How can I use PHP to detect which proxy server curl is going to use?

I was hoping there might be a curl_getopt in php curl, so I could do something like:

curl_getopt(CURLOPT_PROXY);

but alas it doesn’t exist.

Is there any way for me to find out which proxy server php curl will be connecting through?

Answer 1

1. You tell curl what proxy to use, and not viaversa:

function wget($url)
{
    $options = array(
        CURLOPT_URL             => $url,
        CURLOPT_HEADER          => false,
        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION  => true,
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER  => true,
        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT         => 30,
        CURLOPT_PROXY           => '...proxy.ip...',
        CURLOPT_PROXYPORT       => '...proxy.port...',
        CURLOPT_USERAGENT       => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9',
    );
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
    $content = curl_exec($ch);
    $error = curl_error($ch);
    return (!$error && $content) ? $content : null;
}

2. Another solution >

And look at this answer > How to get an option previously set with curl_setopt()?

3. Override curl_setopt() function

http://php.net/manual/en/function.override-function.php

p.s. you should probably need http://php.net/manual/en/function.rename-function.php

4. Use runkit to override functions

http://php.net/manual/en/book.runkit.php