cant set Host in CURL PHP

Question

I am unable to set the host in curl. It still shows as localhost if i use the following code

function wget($url)
        {

            $agent= 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0.1';
            $curlHeaders = array (
                    'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
                    'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate',
                    'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5',
                    'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0.1',
                    'Connection: Keep-Alive',
                    'Pragma: no-cache',
                    'Referer: http://example.com/',
                    'Host: hostname',
                    'Cache-Control: no-cache',
                    'Cookie: visid_incap_185989=9v1q8Ar0ToSOja48BRmb8nn1GFUAAAAAQUIPAAAAAABCRWagbDIfmlN9NTrcvrct; incap_ses_108_185989=Z1orY6Bd0z3nGYE2lbJ/AXn1GFUAAAAAmb41m+jMLFCJB1rTIF28Mg==; _ga=GA1.3.637468927.1427699070; _gat=1; frontend=rqg7g9hp2ht788l309m7gk8qi7; _gat_UA-1279175-12=1; __utma=233911437.637468927.1427699070.1427699078.1427699078.1; __utmb=233911437.2.10.1427699078; __utmc=233911437; __utmz=233911437.1427699078.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __utmt_UA-1279175-1=1; _cb_ls=1; _chartbeat2=S0WVXDwMWnCFBgQp.1427699081322.1427699232786.1; PRUM_EPISODES=s=1427699568560&r=http%3A//example.com/'

            );
            $ch = curl_init();
            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $curlHeaders);
            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
            $result=curl_exec($ch);
            return $result;
        }

I use fiddler to track the network requests. where I found the host is still as localhost

If I load this same Link in browser i get as following in fiddler

I need my specified domain to be accessed. How can I achieve this? Note: I am aware that host name should not contain the protocol.

Alternatively

Also i would like to know is it possible to get the source code of a website the could be seen in browser through terminal?

Answer 1

Assuming we are not trying spoof the Host header, omit the Host header altogether and let curl sort it out. In this case, just remove 'Host: hostname', because you already get curl to automatically set this with your code near the bottom with curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);.

If you really want to set the Host header yourself, then just replace

'Host: hostname',

with

"Host: ". parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST),

(Note: This function doesn't work with relative URLs.)

Answer 2

try like this,

  curl_init('XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX');
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Host: subdomain.hostname.com'));

Answer 3

If you are using windows and xampp then try to use virtual host rather than localhost, then it will start working, I did the same.