Force YouTube to desktop view about php-proxy-app HOT 24 CLOSED

You can fool YouTube by changing your User-Agent to some desktop browser. Open up config.php and edit this part:

$config['curl'] = array(
    //CURLOPT_INTERFACE => '123.123.123.13',
    //CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Firefox 5000'
);

Uncomment the user agent part and change it to something like "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0"

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I've already tried that

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So even with that, when you go to youtube.com, it still redirects you to m.youtube.com?

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Yes, and as I saw too, the iPads user-agent was in the test page.

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I'm not understanding this. So is the CURLOPT_USERAGENT option ignored? What if you set it to "dfgdfgdfgdfgdf". Would you still get Mozilla Apple..?

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Nop, it's still says the same. I think it's not curl enough, get it xD.

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lol okay. Maybe it's an outdated version otherwise I don't know why that is not working. Is it possible for you to give me access to your server so I could do some debugging from there?

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Yes,I'll PM you with the data

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Sorry, I don't seem to find a way to PM, may you give me a email address?

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[email protected]

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I sended you the details, don't get mad if the connection is slow, it's far away from the router, it should be stable enough

Night

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Oh never mind your server, I just tested custom curl options on my own server and it didn't work either. Here is the problem: CURLOPT_USERAGENT is being overwritten by CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER option that stores user-agent header and others. You cannot override this option from config.php.
Ideally, setting CURLOPT_USERAGENT to something would overwrite whatever user-agent CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER was holding, but apparently this is not how php-curl works. I might send this suggestion to PHP people, to see if it makes sense to change it.
Right now you can only change your user-agent through plugins. Edit php-proxy-app/plugins/TestPlugin.php by adding this line:

$event['request']->headers->set('user-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0');

inside onBeforeRequest method. I just tested it and it works.

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Oh ok, one question ,will you be implementing different user agents to be chosen with the proxy?
that would actually solve some problems in the future

btw, I'll be applying the code tomorrow and I'll tell you. Good Night from here

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Many more things will be implemented as soon as I finish school which will be in about 2 weeks.

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Hmm... Adding that line just stops the proxy from loading a web page.

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Is it still not working for you?

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Nop, and I just rebooted and my SD Card got corrupt.

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You must have changed something else besides that line I gave you. Your proxy: http://proxy.e-education.hk/ is not working right now, so I can't check what's happening.

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My SD got corrupted, so the system doesn't boot anymore, I'll be setting everything up again later.

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ok,got it to work now. my ip is 83.59.79.21, same pass same port

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I'm running this proxy again at my server. But your solution for changing the user agent doesn't seem to work anymore. And I don't find a solution. Would be nice if you would help me again

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How does it not work anymore? Can you give me a link to your site and explain about what you're expecting and what you're not getting?

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I'm expecting it to force a user agent when the proxy fetches the page. The old solution, adding $event['request']->headers->set('user-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0');

Does not seem to work anymore

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What does http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ page say now?

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