Is "User Agent" suppose to have a hyphen "-" ? Ron
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From: Richard Quadling
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 9:16 AM
To: Deva
Cc: Shreyas Agasthya ; Ron Piggott ; php-general@lists.php.net ;
a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PHP] Fw: Spoofing user_agent
On 25 November 2010 11:32, Deva <devendra...@gmail.com> wrote:
Use curl
http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Shreyas Agasthya
<shreya...@gmail.com>wrote:
I feel you should use more of the 4th method here as you are not trying
to
read the file but the header level (7th layer) information of the HTTP
protocol.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php
--Shreyas
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Ron Piggott <
ron.pigg...@actsministries.org
> wrote:
> Will the header pass with using file_get_contents , or should I be
using
> another command, and if so, which one? Ron
>
> <?php
>
> header('User Agent: RonBot (http://www.example.com)');
> $url = "http://www.example.com";; <http://www.example.com%22;>
>
> $input = file_get_contents($url);
>
>
>
> The Verse of the Day
> “Encouragement from God’s Word”
> http://www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info
>
> *From:* Shreyas Agasthya <shreya...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 25, 2010 4:21 AM
> *To:* Ron Piggott <ron.pigg...@actsministries.org>
> *Cc:* php-general@lists.php.net ; a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk
> *Subject:* Re: [PHP] Fw: Spoofing user_agent
>
> A standard HTTP Request headers is : User Agent (without the
> underscore).
>
> --Shreyas
>
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Ron Piggott <
> ron.pigg...@actsministries.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Is this what you are telling me to do:
>>
>> header('user_agent: RonBot (http://www.theverseoftheday.info)');
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> The Verse of the Day
>> “Encouragement from God’s Word”
>> http://www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info
>>
>> From: a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk
>> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 3:34 AM
>> To: Ron Piggott ; php-general@lists.php.net
>> Subject: Re: [PHP] Fw: Spoofing user_agent
>>
>> You need to set it in the header request you make. Putting it in the
>> script you're using as a spider with ini_set won't do anything because
the
>> Target site doesn't know anything about it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ash
>> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>>
>> ----- Reply message -----
>> From: "Ron Piggott" <ron.pigg...@actsministries.org>
>> Date: Thu, Nov 25, 2010 08:25
>> Subject: [PHP] Fw: Spoofing user_agent
>> To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
>>
>> I have wrote a script to generate a sitemap of my web site. It crawls
all
>> of the site web pages. (About 30,000)
>>
>> I need help to spoof the user_agent variable so the stats program
running
>> in the background ( “AWSTATS” ) will treat the crawl as a bot, not
browsing
>> usage.
>>
>> The sitemap generator is a cron job. I tried the syntax:
>> ini_set('user_agent', 'RonBot (http://www.theverseoftheday.info)/'/);
>>
>> This didn’t work. The browsing was attributed to the dedicated IP
>> address.
>>
>> How do I get AWSTATS to access this, such as other entries under the
>> “Robots/Spiders visitors” heading:
>> Unknown robot (identified by 'bot*')
>>
>> I don’t mean any ill will by changing this setting. Thanks for the
help.
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> The Verse of the Day
>> “Encouragement from God’s Word”
>> http://www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Shreyas Agasthya
>
--
Regards,
Shreyas Agasthya
--
:DJ
It is no use using header(). This sets a header for the client, not
the server of any file_get_contents() requests.
I use stream_contexts.
$s_Contents = file_get_contents(
$s_URL,
False,
stream_context_create(
array(
'http' => array(
'method' => 'GET',
'header' => "User-Agent: RonBot (http://www.example.com)\r\n"
),
)
)
);
You can supply cookies, or anything else, with the request. Make sure
you add a \r\n to each of the headers and just concatenate them.
If you are doing this in a loop, then I'd recommend creating a default
stream context and then the request would just be ...
$s_Contents = file_get_contents($s_URL);
As the default stream context would be applied.
I had to use a default stream context to route all http requests
through an NTLM authentication proxy server because PHP doesn't deal
with NTLM authentication.
See my user notes on
http://docs.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-get-default.php.
Don't bother with the link at the bottom of the user note- it's not
live.
Richard.
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