Curl, follow location but only get header of the new location?

Question

I know that when I set CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION to true, cURL will follow the Location header and redirect to new page. But is it possible only to get header of the new page w

Answer 1

You can get the redirect URL directly with curl_getinfo:

  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, false);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); //specify your URL
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true); //include headers in http data
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false); //don't follow redirects
  $http_data = curl_exec($ch); //hit the $url
  $redirect = curl_getinfo($ch)['redirect_url'];
  curl_close($ch);

  return $redirect;