Release: 2.1.3 | build: 2024.08.26 | PHP: ^7.2.5|^8.0

Ultra Small Proxy 2

Ultra Small Proxy is a lightweight proxy written in PHP.

How to install

composer require szczyglis/php-ultra-small-proxy

Features

• Proxy server written in PHP
• Easy to use and integrate
• Simple and lightweight
• Sessions support
• Supports sending and receiving cookies
• Supports sending and receiving HTTP headers
• Cache and asset storage
• Domain and IP/host connection support
• HTTP Basic Auth support
• GET and POST request handling
• Form submission support
• POST variable redirection
• Toolbar with address bar, configuration, and debugger
• URLs rewritten/proxied at runtime (links, images, CSS, JavaScript, etc.)
• Two different methods for URL rewriting: Regex (with preg_replace) and XML (with libxml/DOM)
• Supports PHP 7.2.5+ and 8.0+

Requirements

• PHP 7.2.5+ or 8.0+ with CURL and XML extensions
• Composer - https://getcomposer.org/

Usage example

<?php
// app.php

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use Szczyglis\UltraSmallProxy\UltraSmallProxy;
use Szczyglis\UltraSmallProxy\Config;

$config = new Config();

$proxy = new UltraSmallProxy($config);

echo $proxy->load('https://github.com'); // <-- specify start page here

Ensure you have write permissions to the ./cookies and ./cache directories.

WARNING: The cookies directory should not be publicly accessible!

Screenshot

Open loopback.php if you want to test proxy features such as session support, POST variable redirection, form submission, and more, e.g.:

<?php

$output = $proxy->load('http://localhost/loopback.php'); 

Repository contents:

• src/ - proxy classes

• index.php - usage example

• loopback.php - loopback for testing features like session support, form variable sending, and cookie redirection

Basic usage

use Szczyglis\UltraSmallProxy\UltraSmallProxy;
use Szczyglis\UltraSmallProxy\Config;

$config = new Config();
$proxy = new UltraSmallProxy($config);

echo $proxy->load('https://github.com');

Configuration

$output = $proxy->load('https://github.com', $force = false); 

Boolean $force - if set to false, URLs given in the QUERY STRING will always overwrite URLs passed here. Set to true to reverse this behavior. Default: false.

Config values:

Before page load:

$config->set('init', true) - boolean, auto-init true|false, default: true

$config->set('source', 'domain') - string, input source domain|ip, default: domain

$config->set('raw', false) - boolean, raw download true|false, default: false

$config->set('toolbar', true) - boolean, attach toolbar true|false, default: true

$config->set('user_agent', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;)') - string, user agent, default: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;)

$config->set('timeout', 120) - int, curl timeout, default: 120

$config->set('max_redirects', 10) - int, curl max redirects, default: 10

$config->set('cookies_dir', './cookies') - string, cookies directory, default: ./cookies

$config->set('cache_dir', './cache') - string, cache directory, default: ./cache

$config->set('method', 'GET') - string, request method GET|POST

$config->set('rewrite', 'REGEX2') - string, rewrite method REGEX,REGEX2,REGEX3,DOM, default: REGEX2

$config->set('rewrite_url', true) - boolean, enable URL rewriting true|false, default: true

$config->set('rewrite_img', true) - boolean, enable IMG rewriting true|false, default: true

$config->set('rewrite_js', true) - boolean, enable JS rewriting true|false, default: true

$config->set('rewrite_form', true) - boolean, enable FORM ACTION rewriting true|false, default: true

$config->set('rewrite_css', true) - boolean, enable CSS rewriting true|false, default: true

$config->set('rewrite_video', true) - boolean, enable VIDEO rewriting true|false, default: true

$config->set('rewrite_ip', true) - boolean, enable domain to IP+Host resolve true|false, default: true

$config->set('assets', 'REDIRECT') - string, assets proxying mode REDIRECT|CURL, default: REDIRECT

$config->set('is_cfg', false) - boolean, show options true|false, default: false

$config->set('is_dbg', false) - boolean, show debug true|false, default: false

$config->set('htaccess_user', 'user') - string, HTTP AUTH user

$config->set('htaccess_pass', 'pass') - string, HTTP AUTH password

Public methods

After page load:

$siteCookies = $proxy->cookie->getSiteCookies() - returns cookies[] received from proxied site

$localCookies = $proxy->cookie->getLocalCookies() - returns cookies[] stored localy and sended to proxied site

$status = $proxy->http->getStatus() - returns connection status[]

$headers = $proxy->http->getHeaders() - returns received headers[]

$sid = $proxy->getSid() - returns proxied PHPSESSID if exists

$errors = $proxy->getErrors() - returns error messages[] if occured

Other methods:

$parsed = $proxy->render($html) - parses/rewrites URLs in custom HTML content with the selected $rewriteMode.

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Changelog

2.1.0 -- Package was added to Packagist (2022-04-23)

2.1.1 -- Updated PHPDoc (2022-04-25)

2.1.2 -- Updated composer.json (2022-04-28)

2.1.3 -- improved documentation (2024-08-26)

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Ultra Small Proxy is free to use, but if you like it, you can support my work by buying me a coffee ;)

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/szczyglis

Enjoy!

MIT License | 2022 Marcin 'szczyglis' Szczygliński

https://github.com/szczyglis-dev/php-ultra-small-proxy

https://szczyglis.dev

Contact: szczyglis@protonmail.com