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How curl is used in php

Posted on 08. Apr, 2009 by admin.

cURL is one of the most powerful PHP extensions. It stands for Client URL, and allows you to communicate with other servers using a large range of protocols. Other servers and other protocols? At some stage in a novice developer’s career, there comes a time to break out of the local server, and cURL [...]

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Web Developement Blog: Curl Location redirect while open_basedir is set

Posted on 27. Mar, 2009 by admin.

Recently on the Web Developement Blog, Olaf showed how to do a Location redirect with cURL
A simple link checker
If you need to check URLs and if you need a script that has to follow possible redirects, you need to use Curl. The option CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION will follow each redirect until the curl client has reached [...]

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