Downloading an image that is hotlink protected

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I would like to download an image that is hotlink protected. How can I forge the HTTP header with CURL to say the referer is coming from its own server?

I have tried with this command but it fails. I'm not familiar with PHP and help would be much apreciated.

curl -A "Mozilla/5.0" -L -b /tmp/c -c /tmp/c -s 'http://remote-site.com/image.jpg' > image.jpg

Option looks to be

CURLOPT_REFERER

with

curl_setopt

, or

curl --referer

but not sure about the correct syntax.

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EDIT 2 :

I got an error saying that curl_setopt() expects parameter 2 to be long. After removing the MUTE option the error is gone.

To show the image I have tried this code but the page remains blank.

$image = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
print '<img src="'.$image.'"/>';

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EDIT 1:

The code I have entered in my Wordpress post (I use the plugin <a href="http://www.willmaster.com/software/WPplugins/insert-php-wordpress-plugin-instructions.php" rel="nofollow">Insert PHP</a>)

[insert_php]

curl --referer http://www.DOMAIN.com/ -A "Mozilla/5.0" -L -b /tmp -c /tmp -s 'http://www.DOMAIN.com/image.png' > image.png

[/insert_php]

The error I have when I load the page :

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/insert-php/insert_php.php(48) : eval()’d code on line 8