How can I track URL forwarding

[raotnv]

Dear All

 

Could any body shed some light on my problem. What I am trying to do is I have one URL1 (http://www.domain1.com) and user click this url1 and which redirects to URL2 (http://www.domain2.com). But my problem here is I know what could be URL1 but never know URL2 which I need to track for some encoded strings in url they append when they loaded. Is there any way I can track the final forwarded URL in php?. or even java script also fine for me if you have some ideas.

 

Appreciate your help in advance.

 

Thanks

Rao

[rhodesa]

If you do a cUrl request with PHP, you can use this:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-getinfo.php

to get the Last Effective URL

[raotnv]

Thanks for the response. Some how it is still showing same first URL only when I use curl_getInfo. Please check what I am doing here.

 

$ch = curl_init($url);

$execute = curl_exec($ch);

if(!curl_errno($ch))

{

$stringData = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);

}

 

Appreciate any further ideas.

 

Rao

 

If you do a cUrl request with PHP, you can use this:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-getinfo.php

to get the Last Effective URL

[rhodesa]

<?php
  $ch = curl_init('http://www.gmail.com');
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,true);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
  curl_exec($ch);
  $url = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
  print $url;
?>