CURL and URL redirection question

[John Drako]

I have a database with a lot of links. Every so often I run a script to
verify if the URLs are still valid. I weed out the ones with the 404
response.

However, many responses are of the 303 kind (URL redirection).

with the following options, CURL does not return the redirection URL.

$ch = curl_init();
$ret = curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL,
"http://somedomain.com/somepath.html") ;
$ret = curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
$ret = curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNT RANSFER, 1);
$ret = curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
$ret = curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT , 60);
$ret = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($c h);
curl_close($ch) ;

I would like to retrieve the URL that the URL redirects to so that the
script can update the URL directly.

on the command line the following command yields the following result:

% curl -I "http://somedomain.com/somepath.html"

HTTP/1.1 303 See Other
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:15:59 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://somedomain.com/newpath.html
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
X-Pad: avoid browser bug


is it possible to retrieve the 'Location' field via CURL in PHP?

[Nicholas Sherlock]

Re: CURL and URL redirection question

John Drako wrote:[color=blue]
> with the following options, CURL does not return the redirection URL.[/color]

http://php.inspire.net.nz/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

Use FollowLocation.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

[John Drako]

Re: CURL and URL redirection question

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:38:09 -0500, Nicholas Sherlock wrote
(in article <dlc3ab$q8i$1@l ust.ihug.co.nz> ):
[color=blue]
> John Drako wrote:[color=green]
>> with the following options, CURL does not return the redirection URL.[/color]
>
> http://php.inspire.net.nz/manual/en/...url-setopt.php
>
> Use FollowLocation.[/color]

Thanks, that worked :)

CURL has so many options that it's a bit confusing to read all of them.