Stupidly simple PHP proxy

proxy.php

<?php
// Stupidly simple PHP proxy for AJAX (HTTP GET) requests. Written by Kevin Lanni.

$dest = ''; // Set to the remote script URL (i.e. http://remotehost.com/some.php)

$a = array();

foreach ($_GET as $k=>$v) {
	$a[] = "{$k}={$v}";
}

echo file_get_contents($dest.'?'.implode('&',$a));
?>

Oh man. I just had a really hard time because of your proxy. I was looking for the bug everywhere in my Code until I finally remembered that I use your proxy. ...and there it was!
I like the proxy because it's "stupidly simple" and that's sometimes all you need.
However, I think you made it to simple.

The $_GET variable is urldecoded and you're using this encoded Version for the query. You should, however, use the encoded Version of the parameter because otherwise it's not possible to use your proxy for encoded urls. :-/

This will fix it:

foreach ($_GET as $k=>$v) {
    $a[] = urlencode($k).'='.urlencode($v);
}

....or even simpler:

<?php
$dest = '';
echo file_get_contents($dest.'?'.http_build_query($_GET));
?>

;-)

...

<?php
$dest = '';
echo file_get_contents($dest.'?'.$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
?>

Thanks, those are some pretty good ideas. Feel free to fork this gist :)

I'll try your methods out when I have a little time to play around and then update my gist.