Posted by Richard Lynch on 02/24/05 18:43

Warren Vail wrote:
> I am using fopen with a url to open a remote file (read only of course).
> The url I am providing results in a redirect and the fopen seems to be
> smart
> enough to follow the redirect to return the actual file contents. How can
> I
> get at the redirected filename?
>
> The problem is the file contains html and relative references in href's
> buried in the html are relative to the redirected location and not my
> original location, and I would like to subsequently open some of those
> files
> (like a crawler does).

http://php.net/curl
will give you the control to follow or not follow re-directs, as well as
access to all the headers that are coming in to figure out what's going
on.

If it's an IIS/ASP site, count on three or four re-directs for no apparent
reason, other than to waste resources and sell more hardware/software. :-p

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