Help with cURL and reading headers

[m_tt]

I am using cURL to send POST data to an external script. This is working properly, however, this external script returns nothing. It has a header location redirect. Now I can use CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION to have it follow that redirect but that is not what I want to do.

What I need to do is read the header location and redirect it manually.

Is there any way to read the headers returned by cURL?

Or if I enable CURLOPT_HEADER 1 is there any way to read that output so that I can extract the 'Location:' part?

[m_tt]

This is resolved... here is how I did it..

In order to read the headers as a string before the script redirected I used the following settings:

CURLOPT_HEADER, 1 (to output headers)
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 (to return the headers as a string when using curl_exec)
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0 (to disable following the header location in external script)

Explode headers into an array
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$headers = explode("\n", $result);

Loop headers and redirect manually

foreach($headers as $header)	{
	if (preg_match("/Location/i", $header))	{
		header("{$header}");
	}
}

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how to do this better? It works as desired as is 😉