SNOOPY when URL is Redirected

[chvol]

I am writing a program in PHP that accesses the HTML of a given URL via class SNOOPY. However, some URLs change into another one e.g.

http://www.247paintball.com

becomes

http://www.247paintball.com/forum/index.php

if you connect to it. How can I tell that this URL changes like that? I think it is called “redirecting”. Is it in the HTML? I need to know what the new URL is in order to translate HREF= into the complete URL. Charlie chvol@aol.com

 

[sleipnir214]

There are three major methods by which a browser can be redirected to a new URL:[ul][li]throught the use of the "Location:" HTTP header.[/li][li]through the use of the <META...> tag which includes the "http-equiv" attribute of "refresh" in the HTML body of the page[/li][li]client-side scripting[/li][/ul]




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[chvol]

Thanks, but it doesn't seem to be anywhere in the HTML. So how can I see what the client is translating it into?

Charlie

 

[ingresman]

Try a look at HTTP_REFERER

 

[sleipnir214]

ingresman:
HTTP_REFERER is only set for connections coming into a server.

chvol:
The Snoopy class uses class collect and provide access to the HTTP headers a server sends when you use the class to fetch a page? If so, look there for a header beginning "Location:"



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[sleipnir214]

chvol:
A quick peak of the Snoopy script code shows the lines:

var	$headers		=	array();			// headers returned from server sent here

var	$status			=	0;					// http request status

When your script connects to a site with Snoopy, have that script examine $status. If it is 302, then the $header array should contain a "Location:" header.



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