PHP cURL: Get target of redirect, without following it

Question

The curl_getinfo function returns a lot of metadata about the result of an HTTP request. However, for some reason it doesn\'t include the bit of information I want at the m

Answer 1

I had the same problem and curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false); was of any help.

So, I decided not to use CURL but file_get_contents instead:

$data = file_get_contents($url);
$data = str_replace("

The last line helped me to block the redirection although the product is not a clean html code.

I parsed the data and could retrieve the redirection URL I wanted to get.