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Getting the url *after* a redirect

Discussion in 'PHP' started by Dejavu, Aug 27, 2005.

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    Dejavu, Aug 27, 2005 IP
  2. Willy

    Willy Peon

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    Can you clarify a bit? Do you mean that you want to parse a link like the above, in order to extract the URL that is being redirected to? If so, using a regular expression (PHP's ereg & preg functions) would be the best way to do what you want; I can give you an example if you want...
     
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    no, that was just an example
    what I mean is how do I know the final url of a link. If a link redirects to another, I want the last thing that ends up in my url bar.
    eg http://tinyurl.com/1c2 redirects to google.com, but how do I get that?
     
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    Oh, I see. Well, there is no way to know that without actually following those links. Essentially what you have to do is find or write a small HTTP client, a "mini web robot", that will request the initial URL, check the response for a redirect, request the URL that was redirected to, check the response for another redirect, and so on... You get the idea ;)

    You should be able to do this fairly easily with PHP's CURL library.
     
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