Re: url extracting

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 04:42:08PM -0000, Caspar Kennerdale wrote: > I am yrying to read free urls from a moreover.com to a director app which > will be a news reader without a browser > > 'm using php top extrat the headlines > > each headline looks similar to this > > ("http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?l27536670") > > > If a browser goes to this page then it is redirected to the appropriate page > ie www.newssite.com/etc/etc/etc > > Director does not interpret the redirection. > > Can anyone think of a way for a script to go the to the moreover link and > then return the 'real url as a variable or as an array of links (if multiple > headlines are required You can open a socket to the web server with PHP and grab the Location header from the response. See the fsockopen() man page for examples, or sendtohost.txt for a simple function to handle passing the right headers. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php http://dodds.net/~cardinal/sendtohost.txt Matt