PHP (cURL, headers, COOKIES) and more

Question

I will try to explain what I am trying to reach the best way I can.

Let's say there is a page that shows information and it has cookies ( I can see the cookies through Firecookie [Firefox add-on in Firebug]) I am able to print the cookies in my localhost through

$cookies = array();
foreach ($http_response_header as $hdr) {
    if (preg_match('/^Set-Cookie:\s*([^;]+)/', $hdr, $matches)) {
        parse_str($matches[1], $tmp);
        $cookies += $tmp;
    }
}

print_r($cookies);

but the original page has request headers, and what I am trying to do is get the request header and make a request to that same page. I guess I have two questions, do I get the request header through COOKIES or separately. And how do I get the request headers of a page and send a request to that page with those request headers? I tried lots of things and couldn't succeed. I don't have the codes I've tried since I constantly try new things therefore can't paste what I have, only the file I pasted.

Answer 1

If you're using PHP with apache you can get request headers using function apache_request_headers.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.apache-request-headers.php