Really not sure how to go about this..

Morlan · 10 Feb 2009 at 14:40

I want to echo back a URL or string that is entered after my domain root or sub folder.

Eg. User types mydomain.com/http://www.url.com

I want it to echo back anything that is entered after mydomain.com/ .. In this case "http://www.url.com"

I would need to capture to 404 Not Found somehow? I'm using shared hosting, so I don't know if this is even possible.

I could always query the script directly using

mydomain.com/index.php?url=http://www.url.com

..but, ideally, I would like the former.

Any pointers or ideas on how I could go about this?

JIM_BOB7813 · 10 Feb 2009 at 14:47

You could use apache mod_rewrite to rewrite the URL from mydomain.com/http://www.url.com to mydomain.com/index.php?url=http://www.url.com
Would be possible on shared hosting.

malef!c · 10 Feb 2009 at 19:05

Could you us ethe PHP Parse Url function?
The manual page has a good example - take a look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php

Morlan · 17 Feb 2009 at 15:21

JIM_BOB7813 said:
You could use apache mod_rewrite to rewrite the URL from mydomain.com/http://www.url.com to mydomain.com/index.php?url=http://www.url.com
Would be possible on shared hosting.

OK, I sorted it out in the end.

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(http://.+)$ /url.php?=$1 [QSA,L]