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I was wondering how you might be able to update a CURL (PHP) request to fool the receiving server into thincking you are a genuine browser which has the flash plugin installed.
I am requesting a page which has a flash video. What I receive back is an image suggesting I should install the flash plugin.
Has anyone come across this before and could I send the request with altered headers to fool the server into thinking the request is coming from a genuine flash plugin installed browser?
Thanks.
Flash isn’t exposed through request headers. There is nothing to fool.
As ceejayoz pointed out, embedding Flash is usually a progressive enhancement. A page is sent with some fallback content (such as text saying you don’t have flash), and then that fallback is replaced with Flash by JavaScript.