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Handling Redirects with PHP/CURL

June 29th, 2009

Ever wanted to see all the different redirect urls a particular link redirects through with PHP/CURL? Now you can with this nifty little piece of code (the only thing I haven’t written yet is a way to handle redirects that don’t contain the hostname). Anyway, with that said, check this out:

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$url = "http://www.somesiteyouknowuseslocationredirect.com";
 
$ch = curl_init();
 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 
$data = curl_exec($ch);
 
$curl_info = curl_getinfo($ch);
 
$redirect_count = $curl_info['redirect_count'];
 
$header_size = $curl_info['header_size'];
 
$header = substr($data, 0, $header_size);
 
$redirecturls = array();
 
if($redirect_count>0){
 
preg_match_all("/location:(.*?)\n/is", $header, $locations);
 
foreach($locations[1] as $location){;
$redirecturls[] = trim($location);
}
 
}

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A lot of Gmail email addresses, yet only 1 Gmail account.

February 5th, 2009

 Basically Gmail strips all .’s out of an email address when it receives the email. So you can essentially make 100s of different email addresses out of only 1 gmail address by simply taking your current email and adding .’s to it. For example: exosusrocks@gmail.com and making it e.xosusrocks@gmail.com, e.x.osusrocks@gmail.com, so on and so forth will all still go to exosusrocks@gmail.com.  It comes in handy when say you want to create a new user on a forum but don’t want to have to create a new email address.

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