How do you proxy though a server using ssh (socks…) using php’s CURL?

Question

I want to use ssh, something like this:

ssh -D 9999 username@ip-address-of-ssh-server

But within php CURL, but I don\'t really see how this cou

Answer 1

You can use both libssh2 and curl from within a PHP script.

• First you need to get the ssh2 library from the PECL site. Alternatively, the PEAR package has SSH2 support too.
• After installing you can then read the ssh2 documentation on setting up a tunnel.
• In your script you can then set up the tunnel.
• After the tunnel is set up in the script you can specify the CURL proxy.
• Perform your CURL operation.
• Release the tunnel resource and close the connection in your script.

I'm not a PHP expert, but here's a rough example:

The simplest option

Another option to consider is using sftp (ftp over ssh) instead of CURL... this is probably the recommended way to copy a file from one server to another securely in PHP...

Even simpler example: