CURL Redirect not working for alibaba.com, Help!

First of all, thanks for looking =).

Here is a function I wrote.

function getResultFromURL($URL)
{
	$ch = curl_init($URL);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);//no need to get header information
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

	$result=curl_exec($ch);
	
	return $result;//returns a CURL resource, with the source of the page or an ERROR
}

PHP:

This works on any other page given a URL and returns the site correctly. However for the site http://www.alibaba.com it doesn't work! It brings me to this cpanel thing instead. How can I make CURL correct go the real site that is supposed to be there? I'm highly confused as I thought CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION was supposed to do this for me. [I'm not in safe mode, and I've tried the MaxRedirect Option already, no luck =( ]

Willing to pay for assistance .

Best,
- Joe~

 

hmm no one has an idea? A clue even for me =).

 

Here is my script in action and what it puts.

http://dnfinder.net/rentacoder/alibabaScrape.php?url=http://www.alibaba.com

 

Hey good news I figured out the answer on my own >.<, I don't get why this works, but perhaps that site has security, so I changed the headers to make it say something different.

function getResultFromURL($url)
{
	$curl = curl_init();

	$header[0] = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,";
	$header[0] .= "text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";
	$header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0";
	$header[] = "Connection: keep-alive";
	$header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300";
	$header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";
	$header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5";
	$header[] = "Pragma: "; // browsers keep this blank.
	
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)');
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.google.com');
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate');
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
	
	$html = curl_exec($curl); // execute the curl command
	curl_close($curl); // close the connection
	
	return $html; // and finally, return $html
}

PHP:

Found this at php.net and it worked! =), I'm not so sure why, but I guess there is something sneky going on with that site.

-joe