CURL a page and spoof the URL?

digby

Hi Guys,

Wondering if you can help me out?

After CURLing a page can I change the HREF links within the content that I have just rendered?

For example, lets assume you run a simple CURL get command and curl the site, www.google.com and that page contains various links to google.com but does not fully qualify the url link so your rendered page has links like;

When what you want are links like these so that the rendered content will still work?

Any advice much appreciated.

Thanks, Digs

bradgrafelman

You could do something like this:

$content = str_repace('<head>', "<head>\n<base href=\"http://www.google.com\">", $content);

Note that this assumes the page is built properly and actually has a HEAD section.