Thought this was pretty entertaining! David Sandberg trolls his Twitter followers by using .htaccess to spoof an image file to return a PHP script that programmatically returns an image based on the visitor IP address.
David F. Sandberg@ponysmasherTroll tutorial twitter.com/ponysmasher/st…21:21 PM - 22 Sep 2020David F. Sandberg @ponysmasherI should probably know this, but can anyone tell me what movie(?) this is from: https://t.co/Fpc6GmSmzg
Here's the code from the Tweet for anybody wanting to try anything similar:
.htaccess
RewriteEngine on
Redirect /whatisthis.jpg /whatisthis.php
whatisthis.php
<?php
function getIMG() {
// Get last digit of IP address
$numb = substr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], -1);
// Return a different image based on IP
if($numb == 1 || $numb == 2) {
header("Location: 1.jpg");
} elseif($numb == 3 || $numb == 4) {
header("Location: 2.jpg");
} elseif($numb == 5 || $numb == 6) {
header("Location: 3.jpg");
} elseif($numb == 7 || $numb == 8) {
header("Location: 4.jpg");
} elseif($numb == 9 || $numb == 0) {
header("Location: 5.jpg");
}
}
getIMG();
?>
Top comments (1)
For a better joke, don’t rederict them.
Use something like
Then the output is different per IP range, but they will not know/see it.
P.s. typed on mobile so indentation and example are not perfect.