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I am using file_get_content() to open a file from external url. But when i do so, the url request ip is being set as the server ip instead of the client ip. is there any way to solve this?

I found this by testing the following code.

<?php
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
// Create a stream
$opts = array(
        'http'=>array(
            'method'=>"GET",
            'header'=>"HTTP_CLIENT_IP: $ip" .
            "remote_addr: $ip".
            "server_addr: $ip".
            "Cookie: foo=bar\r\n",
            )
);

$context = stream_context_create($opts);

// Open the file using the HTTP headers set above
$file = file_get_contents('http://ifconfig.me/ip', false, $context);
var_dump($file);

Output : string(10) "153.92.0.6" (It is my domain ip) Output i wanted is client ip instead of domain ip

GreyCode Developers
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  • Does this answer your question? [How to get the client IP address in PHP](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3003145/how-to-get-the-client-ip-address-in-php) – Sfili_81 Jun 14 '21 at 15:12
  • I'm actually trying to scrap a website with Simple HTML dom.. The website which I'm scraping contains m3u8 links which is based on tokens generated from the request up address... – GreyCode Developers Jun 14 '21 at 18:27

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the url request ip is being set as the server ip instead of the client ip.

Well yes. That is where the request is coming from.

is there any way to solve this?

Make the request from the client instead. e.g. with Ajax. Expect the same origin policy to get in the way.

If your goal is to get the client's IP address, then $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] already has that and you have no need to go to an external service.

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  • How to make the request from client? Actually I'm very new to this ... I'm actually trying to scrap a website with Simple HTML dom.. The website which I'm scraping contains m3u8 links which is based on tokens generated from the request up address... – GreyCode Developers Jun 14 '21 at 18:22