Is it possible for PHP to track the url?

Question

Is it possible for PHP to get the URL, wait for the redirect, and then enter the URL of the page?

Answer 1

$cr = curl_init("http://example.com"); curl_setopt($cr, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($cr, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); curl_exec($cr); $info = curl_getinfo($cr); echo "url=".$info["url"]; 

Answer 2

see http://www.php.net/manual/en/wrappers.http.php

-j

Answer 3

You can also use wget / curl wrapper.

http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php