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Geekpedia » PHP Code » Reveal The Url Behind A Tinyurl

Reveal The Url Behind A Tinyurl

Using sockets in PHP to reveal the path that a tinyurl.com URL really points to by reading the HEAD data.

On Sunday, July 6th 2008 at 11:33 PM

By Andrei Pociu (View Profile)

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<?php
$TinyUrl = "http://tinyurl.com/58zbz6";
$ParamStart = stristr($TinyUrl, "tinyurl.com/");
$C = substr($ParamStart, 12);
if($FSock = fsockopen("tinyurl.com", 80, $ErrCode, $ErrMsg, 30))
{
        if ($FSock)
        {
                fputs ($FSock, "HEAD /$C HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: tinyurl.com\r\n\r\n");
                while (!feof($FSock)) {$Headers .= fgets($FSock, 128);}
                fclose ($FSock);
        }
        $ArrTmp = explode("Location:", $Headers);
        $Arr = explode("\n", trim($ArrTmp[1]));
        echo trim($Arr[0]);
}
?>

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