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

Just a note:

All answers with code here manually parse the headers from a curl request to find a Location: header.

However, since PHP 5.3.7, there is an option CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL you can use with curl_getinfo(). No need to do requests twice, no need to enable headers if you don't want them, no need for regexps.