fopen doesn't support http redirects

[Anon]

I'm calling an url using fopen, and I get a warning of:

fopen("http://url/", "r") - success in line x

and then errors on all the lines that try to use the filehandle. The only thing I can think is that it's using redicrects (which I know fopen doesn't support). Is there any way I can have it follow the redirects and return the page it ends up at?

Thanks,

Danny