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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on July 26, 2008, 4:10 pm
Please log in for more thread options Sarah wrote:
>> Sarah wrote:
>>> I was wondering if someone might be able to help me with this issue.
>>> I have a feeling this has something to do with my host's server
>>> settings as I used to be able to get CURL to follow redirects by
>>> setting CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION set to true. I had a problem with my
>>> host's updating something in the past that gave me the error
>>> "CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an
>>> open_basedir is set". My host worked on the issue and the error went
>>> away, but I still can't seem to follow redirects, but I don't receive
>>> the error. When I turn on the headers it show the location redirect,
>>> but it won't follow it. Any ideas or is this an issue again with my
>>> host? One code example of this issue is below. I have been able to
>>> manually redirect to a point, but it would be a lot easier if the CURL
>>> option worked. Thanks for any help you can provide.
>>> <?php
>>> $ch = curl_init();
>>> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt");
>>> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");
>>> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
>>> Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1");
>>> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.flickr.com/signin/");
>>> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.flickr.com/");
>>> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type:
>>> application/x-www-form-urlencoded"));
>>> //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
>>> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
>>> curl_exec ($ch);
>>> curl_close($ch);
>>> ?>
>> Did the error go away, or did they just hide it?
>>
>> Look at phpinfo(). Is either safe_mode or open_basedir set?
>>
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>> Jerry Stuckle
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>
> When I did phpinfo() is says safe mode is off, but there after
> open_basedir is looks like it lists a path. When I mentioned to my
> host that I thought that having the open_basedir set was the problem
> they said replied with "I have again checked your curl redirect issue
> and found that there is problem to the curl redirect code. You need
> contact to your programmer, he will assist you in a better war
> regarding this issue."
>
> The code I used to show them that CURL redirects were not working is:
>
> <?php
> $ch = curl_init();
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt");
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
> Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1");
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.flickr.com/signin/");
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.flickr.com/");
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-
> Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded"));
> //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
> curl_exec ($ch);
>
> curl_close($ch);
>
> ?>
>
>
> They told me that they created a redirect page and it worked fine.
> There code is:
> <?php
> // create a new CURL resource
> $ch = curl_init();
>
> // set URL and other appropriate options
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.flickr.com/");
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
>
> echo "<pre>";
> print_r(curl_getinfo($ch,CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL));
> echo "</pre>";
>
> // grab URL and pass it to the browser
> curl_exec($ch);
>
> // close CURL resource, and free up system resources
> curl_close($ch);
> ?>
>
>
> Problem with there code that I can tell is that they used the wrong
> URL. http://www.flickr.com does not redirect it is
http://www.flickr.com/signin/
> that redirects. If they had used the correct URL shouldn't
> CURINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL produce the new redirection URL which is
>
https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.src=flickr&.pc=5134&.scrumb=0&.pd=c%3DE0.GahOp2e4MjkX.5l2HgAoLkpmyPvccpVM-&.intl=us&.done=https%3A%2F%2Flogin.yahoo.com%2Fconfig%2Fvalidate%3F.src%3Dflickr%26.pc%3D5134%26.scrumb%3D0%26.pd%3Dc%253DE0.GahOp2e4MjkX.5l2HgAoLkpmyPvccpVM-%26.intl%3Dus%26.done%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.flickr.com%252Fsignin%252Fyahoo%252F
> and not http://www.flickr.com/signin?
>
> If I did something wrong in my code to not properly form it to allow
> redirects I would be happy to take the blame, but as far as I can see
> I didn't and the only think I can think that would be causing this is
> that they have the open_basedir set to a path instead of it being null
> like it used to be.
>
> Any help or advice to make sure I am not losing my mind would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
So if the url they used doesn't direct, it's not a valid test, is it?
You have the error message. You have the phpinfo(), which verifies what
the error message says.
But you probably won't get them to turn off open_basedir for security
reasons.
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jstucklex@attglobal.net
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