Abdul Qabiz's Blog – India

How about without using curl and relying just on he php fopen. I use this often for tackling any same-origin / cross-domain issues since the fopen can open any remote address ,no strings attached .
I’ve briefly talked about it over at demo here .
Keep Clicking,
Bhasker V Kode,
returnable.org

@Bhaskar: I use both approaches, CURL gives more control over things… I never tried, but can you handle HTTP 30x redirects etc with fopen technique?
-abdul

Thank you, but…. what do I write on my Action Script (SWF File) aaand what do I write exactly on the proxy.php file ? please, just explain with detail this and I will appreciate, tahnks a lot,
Sw. Jiten

Do I misunderstand anything or does this proxy script also opens up your server to the world to be, possibly, misused for things like hiding one’s identity, i.e. the IP? I don’t have a good feeling with such a script.

I had issues with this script (and others) returning 0 for the bytesTotal in flash. Basically, the Content-Length header was absent from the response. By simply adding
header(”Content-length: “.strlen($response)) before the echo, it resolved the issue. I don’t know if there is a more appropriate fix to account for character encoding, etc, but it seems to work.

@Schimmi: Well, if you can add some checks there (like who is referring your script) and allow the access to whitelisted clients (served from your domain)… I think, you can totally make it used applications from same-domain….So it would not be open to world. Yeah above script doesn’t have those things..
-abdul

@Lanny: Thanks for that, I would update it my code also…I need to find a way to return correct content-length for all content-type (text/binary/gzip etc)…
Thanks
-abdul

God bless you! I was tearing my hair out. Works like a charm – but you knew that…

The PHP proxy script have support of GET and POST solicitations?
Falopa!

WOW! thanks for sharing the script. excellent work

Here is a ASP Proxy Script.

<!– Code starts Below this line –>
<%
set objHttp = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP")
strURL = Request("url")"
objHttp.open "GET", strURL, False
objHttp.Send

If objHttp.status = 200 Then
    Response.Expires = 90
    Response.ContentType = Request("mimeType")
    Response.BinaryWrite objHttp.responseBody
    set objHttp = Nothing
End If
%>
<!– Code ends above this line –>

Usage:

http://yourserver.com/proxy.asp?url=&lt;url_encoded_desitnation_url&gt;&mimeType=&lt;mimeType&gt;

Example:

http://yourserver.com/proxy.asp?url=http%3A//www.templatesoft.com/images/16596.jpg&mimeType=image/jpg

Thank you very much for this PHP script…. It really solved my big problem. Once again Thanks

Nice script gonna try my hand with it…
regards..
mohnkhan
http://www.mohitech.com

Will this work with displaying YouTube videos?

@Carl: You can use other code available on this blog for YouTube.
http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/general/update_getting_youtu.php
http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/flash_and_actionscript/constructing_youtube_1.php
http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/flash_and_actionscript/youtube_actionscript.php
Read the comments on all of above posts, you would fine more details and code.
-abdul

Thanks for this script.
It helped me to solve my problem.
While implementing this, I found out two minor problems and possible solutions
that I would like to share with you guys:

1) If current($_POST) is empty (blank), the condition (while) becomes false. The
subsequent post fields cannot be processed (not included in $postvars).

while ($element = current($_POST)) {
$postvars .= key($_POST).’=’.$element.’&';
next($_POST);
}

Solution:
while ($key = key($_POST)) {
$postvars .= $key.’=’.urlencode(current ($_POST)).’&';
next($_POST);
}

2) I think urlencode() should be used as shown below:

$postvars .= $key.’=’.urlencode(current ($_POST)).’&';

I hope this helps.

Really tanks for that.

sure.. nice code, butt…
unhappily images are not stored in cache..

Hello
I am using your proxy.php script to grab iGoogle weather in flash. I have php enabled and configured on our IIS 6 server, but nothing loads when going to the page. Do you have any ideas what could be causing this? Thanks

This looks like a simple modification of http://developer.yahoo.com/javascript/samples/proxy/php_proxy_simple.txt but with the original author’s name conveniently removed (and not retained for giving proper credit???)

I have changed the source file to point to the proxy.php file in the same directory, and exported the swf. The swf cannot load the data. If i try to look at the proxy.php file directly, i just get errors. Any suggestions?

Excuse me, but i need a little help. i want to use your proxy for cross-domain request. i tryed it to make a request from a java Requestbuilder with an xml file as content and an POST as method, but my php isnt good and i cant get the content from the request to use ist in your proxy. some advices?

I am using this script for flash and google calendar and it works pretty great. the only problem is that it seems to change the sort order of google calendar. the feed I’m trying to get is https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/doug%40dougmishkin.com/public/full?futureevents=true&orderby=starttime&sortorder=ascending&max-results=5 but it defaults to the orderby default.
Any ideas?

You should make this able so that people can get on myspace.com from here.

Totally brilliant, elegant and simple. Thanks so much for your work on this.

Fantastic. Absolutly fantastic. Thank you so much for this excellent little file.
Life saver!

I have tried the script to access a distant flv file. It works, but I have to wait a lot of time to see the video. Have you an idea to have a progressive download of the file.

Thanks!
I didn’t set mime-type and everything but MSIE worked fine. So if MSIE not working, make sure mime type is specified after url.

Hi I’m trying to use this with Google Calendar and AS3 but its throwing up an IOError. The AS3 causing the problem is:
var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader( new URLRequest(’proxy.php?url=’+ xmlURL) );
Any ideas? I have the proxy.php file in the same folder as the swf.
@Alex: If you’re putting the calendar events into an array, you could try sorting that using myArray.sortOn(’myProperty’, Array.DESCENDING);

Hi Abdul,
i have problem. I use the script to get XML datas from other domain. I use the url urlencoded like your advice. It works in FireFox perfect, but not in IE. I tested IE 6, 7 and 8, but no result.
You write it works in IE with mime type after URL. So i need XML, what must i put on the end that it works in IE, because i guess it is my problem…
THANKS

// If it’s a POST, put the POST data in the body
if ($_POST['https://newport.ingrammicro.com/mustang']) {
echo(”hai”);
$postvars = “2.014-01811114-018111MDt8772CG4339pW824D7441″;
while ($element = current($_POST)) {
$postvars .= key($_POST).’=’.$element.’&’;
next($_POST);
}
curl_setopt ($session, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt ($session, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postvars);
}

here in your code its saying if its a post put the post data in the body, is it the html body of my php page or any thing else, plz say about this, where should i give my xml document to post to the url????