Getting URL

[MrLister]

I'm using file() to get a url. However the URL is a redirect. How can I get it's new url or the url it redirected to?

Thank you

[tuf-web_co_uk]

if your wanting the url from the page why not just type in the redirect url

unless it could change, in that case if your navigationis like this

file() > redirect url > redirect page

then their would be no possible way of getting this

however!

if the url which is a redirect is redirecting from a link in a database, your database then you could simply, use a select statement and loading the url into file() like that

[Weedpacket]

You can use [man]fsockopen/man to request the page, and then read the http headers that come back to find the URL they redirect you to.

[MrLister]

How do i read the http header?

[neon]

Read with fgets() { string fgets( resource fp, [int len]) }

[MrLister]

Oh I found it. Thank you