Posted by Paul Dodowa on 12/08/10 11:36

NC wrote:

> Paul Dodowa wrote:
>
>>NC wrote:
>>
>>>It's not that difficult. Basically, all you need to do is to establish
>>>a connection with your proxy server using fsockopen() and then send a
>>>CONNECT request... It's rather straightforward, so you can wrap it up
>>>in all the OOP you want...
>>
>>Have you got any good links/references that show how this is done?
>
>
> Let's say you want to connect to mail.example.com on port 25 through an
> HTTP
> tunnel using a proxy server called your.proxy.server:
>
> $host = 'your.proxy.server';
> $port = '4480'; // 4480 is the default HTTP proxy port
> $fp = fsockopen($host, $port)
> or die ("ERROR: Could not connect to proxy server $host on port
> $port");
> fputs($fp, "CONNECT mail.example.com:25 HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n");
> $response = '';
> do {
> $line = fgets($fp, 10240);
> $response .= $line;
> } while (trim($line) <> null);
> // Now $response contains the complete response of mail.example.com.
> // The response should be parsed to determine whether mail.example.com
> // is ready to communicate. If it is, you can start sending requests
> to
> // mail.example.com using fputs() and read responses using fgets().
> fclose ($fp);
>
> Cheers,
> NC
>
Thanks !

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