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How can I get the destination URL using cURL?

How can I get the destination URL using cURL?
steave ray

steave ray
answered Apr 26 '23 00:00

To get the destination URL using cURL in PHP, you can use the CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION option, which will follow any redirects and update the CURLOPT_URL option with the final URL.

Here's an example:



$url = "https://www.example.com";

// Initialize cURL session
$ch = curl_init();

// Set cURL options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); // initial URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // return response as string
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); // follow redirects

// Execute cURL session
$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Check for errors
if(curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}

// Get the final URL after following redirects
$finalUrl = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);

// Close cURL session
curl_close($ch);

// Process the response and final URL
echo "Response: " . $response . "<br>";
echo "Final URL: " . $finalUrl;

In this example, we set the initial URL using the CURLOPT_URL option and enable the CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION option to follow any redirects. After executing the cURL session, we get the final URL using the curl_getinfo () function with the CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL option. This will return the final URL after following any redirects.

Note that if there are no redirects, the final URL will be the same as the initial URL.
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