I'm trying to connect to a bitcoin node using a modified version of EasyBitcoin-PHP. Here are the modifications I made to make it work over TOR:
I created new fields for the TOR proxy: code-listing 1.1
...
public $response;//was there already
// TOR and other SOCK5 proxies
private $using_proxy; #new
private $proxy_host; #new
private $proxy_port; #new
private $id = 0;//was there already
...
Then I created two new methods: code-listing 1.2
...
/**
* @param string $host
* @param int $port
*/
public function set_proxy($host, $port)
{
$this->proxy_host = $host;
$this->proxy_port = $port;
}
/**
* @param boolean|TRUE $proxy_usage
*/
public function use_proxy($proxy_usage = TRUE)
{
$this->using_proxy = $proxy_usage;
}
...
Finally I added a few lines in the __call() method: code-listing 1.3
// Build the cURL session
$curl = curl_init("{$this->proto}://{$this->host}:{$this->port}/{$this->url}");
$options = array(
CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH => CURLAUTH_BASIC,
CURLOPT_USERPWD => $this->username . ':' . $this->password,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array('Content-type: application/json'),
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $request
);
//What Follows is new!!!
if($this->using_proxy){
$options[CURLOPT_PROXY] = $this->proxy_host;
$options[CURLOPT_PROXYPORT] = $this->proxy_port;
$options[CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE] = CURLPROXY_SOCKS5_HOSTNAME;
}
The fields and methods I created, and the extra lines I added in the __call() method are the same I use on my other TOR PHP/cURL projects (whenever I want PHP/cURL to connect to a site via TOR) and they work just fine.
I then installed and run the TOR Expert Bundle (on Windows) and use the following script to get the info from the bitcoin node.
code-listing 2
<?php
require_once('easybitcoin.php');
$bitcoin = new Bitcoin('username','password','6cmgzwu3x57dr6z7.onion');
$bitcoin->set_proxy("127.0.0.1", "9050");
$bitcoin->use_proxy();
if($bitcoin->getinfo()){
} else {
var_dump($bitcoin->status);
var_dump($bitcoin->error);
}
And Here is what I get when running the script on a command prompt:
int(0)
string(50) "Can't complete SOCKS5 connection to 0.0.0.0:0. (5)"
And sometimes I get this:
int(0)
string(50) "Can't complete SOCKS5 connection to 0.0.0.0:0. (1)"
