Is it possible to download PHP script from a web page with wget?

Question

If I try wget <url> it downloads the resolved page. But I want to download the original script. Is this possible?

Solution 1

No, and thank goodness for that. The server is completely in control of how it responds to your HTTP requests.

Strictly speaking, you can't tell whether it's PHP on the other end of the wire in the first place.

Solution 2

No this is not possible, and would be a huge security issue if it was.

The only way this would be possible is if the web server (Apache) was not configured correctly

Solution 3

This is not possible, the webserver doesn't output the PHP script. The webserver parses it serverside and writes the response of that to the client.

Solution 4

"Officially" - no.
Through "hacking" - yes. If a website allows to download some content via /download.php?src=path_to_file script, AND it was poorly coded, then you could request to download, say, index.php file.

Check this out: https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Path_Traversal

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