Topic awaiting preservation: Getting the URL of a site

Hello once again my beautiful people.

Here's the run down of what I need, and what I think is stopping me.

I need to be able to record a URL that is being transferred to another domain.
There is a link exit script that forwards you to the real domain.

So lets say we had this setup. http://ww.example.org/links.php?linkid=345
When we go to that, it then redirects us to the real site.

What I need to be able to do is have a list of these referer URL's and be able to find out what the REAL url is.

I'm using PHP for the other part of the script that requires this.

Anyone know of a way to do this?

Thanks!

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I've had a quick discussion with AT about this over ICQ (as I wasn't very clear on what he was after) and it appears it is the following.

There is another site (which he has no control over) using a redirect script and he needs to find out where the script redirects to (presumably using some kind of script to automate the process.

My first thought would be to run through the linkid and record the URL that comes up - it would depend on their redircting but if you did that it may be you'd find the URL anyway (esp. if the redirect was server side).

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What scripting language?

Redirects are done using a header normally. I'd use php's get_header('www.example.com') function to retrieve the headers and parse them.

If it's a javascript or meta tag redirect then you just need to parse the page.

If you look at the PHP documentation for get_headers there's a PHP4 workaround as well.

Also I'd do more but I can't use this function with DH (see earlier post)



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(Edited by bitdamaged on 06-09-2005 04:08)

Hey bit,

I'm using PHP 4.3.9, so the get_headers wont work for me.

But this does.

$fp = fopen('http://www.example.com', 'r');
echo $http_response_header[10];

Thanks

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(Edited by AT on 06-09-2005 04:57)