Send cURL requests through tor? - php

Question

I have some code that sends curl requests to a website but it only has the one website in it at the moment and I don't want them wrongly banning my server IP. Is there anyway I can send those cURL requests through the tor network?
What software would I need to do it?
Running CentOS 6.5
public function checkLogin2($email, $password, $cookiefile){
$cookiefile = 'cookies/'.$cookiefile;
$handle = fopen($cookiefile, 'w+');
#$proxy = 'proxy-nl.privateinternetaccess.com:1080';
#$us = 'x9597458:Th3hXjVyuD';
$this->_curl->setCookieFile($cookiefile);
#$this->_curl->addOption(CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy);
#$this->_curl->addOption(CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS5);
#$this->_curl->addOption(CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, $us);
$this->_curl->setUserAgent('FreshAndroidApp-1.3.1');
$this->_curl->addHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
$this->_curl->addHeader('Cookie', 'JSESSIONID=' . strtoupper(md5(time())));
$this->_curl->addHeader('Cookie2', '$Version=1');
try {
$HTML = $this->_curl->post("URL HERE",
array('password' => $password,
'emailAddress' => $email
));
if(!self::isJson($HTML)){
return '{"status":"uncheck", "msg":"<font color="red"><b>Uncheck</b></font> => ' .$email.'|'.$password.'"}';
}
$resp = json_decode($HTML);
if($resp->{'status'} == "success"){
$details = $this->_curl->get('URL HERE');
return $details;
} else if ($resp->{'status'} == "failure"){
return '{"status":"failure"}';
}
fclose($handle);
} catch (CurlWrapperException $e){
return '{"status":"socksfailure", "msg":"'.$proxy. ' => Die or timeout"}';
}
fclose($handle);
}

Answer 1

You would need to install and run TOR, as explained in this link: https://www.torproject.org/docs/rpms.html.en
Then, if your code is right (I don't know much of PHP), just do:
$this->_curl->addOption(CURLOPT_PROXY, 127.0.0.1:9050);
$this->_curl->addOption(CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS5);
Because TOR proxy runs by default on port 9050.
You can also put another IP instead of 127.0.0.1, if you are running TOR in another machine.
I think this should work