major redirection woes!

hi folks, i've been tearing my hair out over a redirection problem ... but i can't seem to find a satisfactory solution. i'm sending some variables to a script on an external webpage, the webpage sends me the data i need back.. except that this page goes through a redirect page... i want to keep this redirect page hidden from the end user. i cannot link directly to the redirect target, as the redirection is actually retrieving essential data from elsewhere before arriving at its destination. also i tried using fopen to read the complete html from this fetch, parse it and retrieve the data that i want.. but this is so slow. is there a way i can just get the results from the final html page and display that to the user directly? i hope i've explained this clearly enough :) thanks for your help!! dk