[Jay6390]

Hi. I have been trying to find a way of getting the location of where a 'www_websitename_com/redirect?id=something'. I have found how to download a page using CURL but have no idea where to go from there, if that is even the right way about it

Thanks in advance
Jay

[Nico]

If you have PHP 5, try this:

PHP Code:

$url = 'www.websitename.com/redirect?id=something';

foreach (get_headers($url) AS $header)
{
      if (preg_match('/Location:\s*(.+)/i', $header, $location))
      {
           echo trim($location[1]);
           break;
      }
} 

[Jay6390]

thanks for the quick reply. i've tested it on my localhost, and it hasnt worked i think there might be an error there somewhere because i added an extra echo statement to see if it would just print a line of text, and it didnt show anything

[Nico]

I just tested it too, and it worked for me. I used www.google.com as URL, and it echoed www.google.es for me.

Run this and see what you get:

PHP Code:

$url = 'www.websitename.com/redirect?id=something';

echo '<pre>' . print_r(get_headers($url), true) . '</pre>'; 

[Jay6390]

using that, i managed to do the same, with google that is. i got it to show the redirect as .co.uk. however, when i tried it on a redirect link, i got this


Array
(
[0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[1] => Connection: close
[2] => Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:27:19 GMT
[3] => Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
[4] => X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
[5] => Content-Length: 1280
[6] => Content-Type: text/html
[7] => Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDAQCRSDSR=FCOLLBCCPAAELIHFDDMCDNDA; path=/
[8] => Cache-control: private
)

[Nico]

They're probably using an HTML meta redirect then. Give this a try:

PHP Code:

$url = 'www.websitename.com/redirect?id=something';

if (preg_match('/<meta\s+http-equiv\s*=\s*["\']?refresh["\']?\s+content\s*=\s*["\']?[\s\d]*;URL\s*=\s*([^"\'>]+)/i', file_get_contents($url), $url))
{
    echo $url[1];
} 

[Jay6390]

Thats done it. thankyou so much Nico