Posted by John Drako on 11/15/05 08:32

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_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$ret = curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
$ret = curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
$ret = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
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
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is it possible to retrieve the 'Location' field via CURL in PHP?

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