PHP: Check if URL redirects?
$urls = array(
'http://www.apple.com/imac',
'http://www.google.com/'
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
foreach($urls as $url) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
// line endings is the wonkiest piece of this whole thing
$out = str_replace("\r", "", $out);
// only look at the headers
$headers_end = strpos($out, "\n\n");
if( $headers_end !== false ) {
$out = substr($out, 0, $headers_end);
}
$headers = explode("\n", $out);
foreach($headers as $header) {
if( substr($header, 0, 10) == "Location: " ) {
$target = substr($header, 10);
echo "[$url] redirects to [$target]<br>";
continue 2;
}
}
echo "[$url] does not redirect<br>";
}
I use curl and only take headers, after I compare my url and url from header curl:
$url="http://google.com";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, '60'); // in seconds
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$res = curl_exec($ch);
if(curl_getinfo($ch)['url'] == $url){
echo "not redirect";
}else {
echo "redirect";
}
You could always try adding:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
since 302 means it moved, allow the curl call to follow it and return whatever the moved url returns.