PHP: Can CURL follow meta redirects

Question

CURL can follow header redirects with the use of CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION but is it possible to follow meta refresh redirects?

Thanks

Answer 1

Yes, but you'll have to do it yourself by parsing the response and looking for things that look like:

Obeying refresh requests is a browser-side thing. Use DOM parsing to look for tags with the appropriate attributes in the response cURL gives you.

If you can guarantee that the response is valid XML, you could do something like this:

$xml = simplexml_load_file($cURLResponse);
$result = $xml->xpath("//meta[@http-equiv='refresh']");
// Process the $result element to get the relevant bit out of the content attribute