curl follow location error

Question

I got this error message:

CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in.

safe_mode i

Answer 1

The workaround is to implement redirection in PHP code.

Here is my own implementation. It has two known limitations:

1. It will force CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER
2. It is incompatible with CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION

The code:

function curl_exec_follow(/*resource*/ &$ch, /*int*/ $redirects = 20, /*bool*/ $curlopt_header = false) {
    if ((!ini_get('open_basedir') && !ini_get('safe_mode')) || $redirects < 1) {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, $curlopt_header);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, $redirects > 0);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, $redirects);
        return curl_exec($ch);
    } else {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE, false);

        do {
            $data = curl_exec($ch);
            if (curl_errno($ch))
                break;
            $code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
            if ($code != 301 && $code != 302)
                break;
            $header_start = strpos($data, "\r\n")+2;
            $headers = substr($data, $header_start, strpos($data, "\r\n\r\n", $header_start)+2-$header_start);
            if (!preg_match("!\r\n(?:Location|URI): *(.*?) *\r\n!", $headers, $matches))
                break;
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $matches[1]);
        } while (--$redirects);
        if (!$redirects)
            trigger_error('Too many redirects. When following redirects, libcurl hit the maximum amount.', E_USER_WARNING);
        if (!$curlopt_header)
            $data = substr($data, strpos($data, "\r\n\r\n")+4);
        return $data;
    }
}