Opera VPN and XAMPP localhost

A Former User

Hello, I use opera browser's VPN to look XXX pictures. To download all image lists I made a php script to download all XXX images at once. However, I have to use XAMPP localhost to do it. When, I enable VPN, Opera disables VPN for XAMPP to access local data. As a consequence, I can not access to XXX websites via localhost. What can be done to enable VPN on localhost ???

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

VPN on localhost? Sorry, but it's a silly question ... the N in VPN stands for network, you don't use a network when you read local content. If you want to use a private window (so there is no history), that would work fine. But a VPN is only for accessing stuff on the network.

A Former User @sgunhouse

@sgunhouse said in OPERA VPN and XAMPP localhost:

VPN on localhost? Sorry, but it's a silly question ... the N in VPN stands for network, you don't use a network when you read local content. If you want to use a private window (so there is no history), that would work fine. But a VPN is only for accessing stuff on the network.

I am also sorry for answering too late. I had time to check old posts during corona time. Nope, It is not a silly question. If in your xampp php.ini settings "Allow URL Include" is set ON or 1 you can include pages from public internet on xampp localhost. By this way I was collecting all images one page with php script and download them all at once.

Just like:

<div>
<?php
//LOCALHOST mySite/index.php

ini_set("allow_url_include","On");
ini_set("allow_url_fopen","On");

//INCLUDE PAGES FROM PUBLIC INTERNET
for($i = 0; $i <= 100; $i++)
{
//Include image-link from public internet and load into localhost site. If requested page's server disables includes image will not load.
echo "<img src='https://blabla.com/img".$i.".jpg' />"; 
/*
out image links:
https://blabla.com/img0.jpg
https://blabla.com/img1.jpg
https://blabla.com/img2.jpg
so on...

I expected that Opera could use VPN for those loads from public internet.*/
};
?>
</div>

I think I explained that I view image source with VPN but I use localhost to download it by its public link. I do not understand how it is possible to call a technical question as silly.

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @Guest

@gomi So you don't want your own computer to know you're connecting to it?

A VPN is an external proxy. If the VPN server is connecting to your computer, your computer is not "localhost" to it. And that is why the question is silly.

A Former User @sgunhouse

@sgunhouse You got it completely wrong. My host connects to some websites like www.google.com, www.facebook.com, etc., loads data from them to localhost and some of them blocked in my country I asked it for only those connections inside localhost, of course I am not asking it for localhost itself.
In the end I've put proxy inside .php page and problem was solved for that time.

<?php
stream_context_set_default(['http'=>['proxy'=>'proxy-host:proxy-port']]);
?>

Some programs like hotspotshield completely passes everything trough its server so I could call blocked pages inside localhost.
I just wanted to learn if Opera has this kind of feature for sub-connections so I would use that one.

It does not matter really, forget it