Re: fopen and redirects

Warren Vail wrote: > I am using fopen with a url to open a remote file (read only of course). > The url I am providing results in a redirect and the fopen seems to be > smart > enough to follow the redirect to return the actual file contents. How can > I > get at the redirected filename? > > The problem is the file contains html and relative references in href's > buried in the html are relative to the redirected location and not my > original location, and I would like to subsequently open some of those > files > (like a crawler does). http://php.net/curl will give you the control to follow or not follow re-directs, as well as access to all the headers that are coming in to figure out what's going on. If it's an IIS/ASP site, count on three or four re-directs for no apparent reason, other than to waste resources and sell more hardware/software. :-p -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm