Using cURL to download a site's HTML source, but getting different file than intended

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Using cURL to download a site's HTML source, but getting different file than intended

php curl http-referer spoofing

user954912 · Nov 11, 2011 · Viewed 12.6k times · Source

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Add the curl option to follow redirects:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

If it is a meta refresh and not an HTTP moved header, see: PHP: Can CURL follow meta redirects

As mentioned by flesk, you may also need to store the cookies.

Question 2

I'm trying to use cURL and PHP to download the HTML source (as it appears in the browser) of here. But instead of the actual source code, this is returned instead (a meta refresh link set to 0).

<html>
    <head><title>Object moved</title></head>
    <body>
        <h2>Object moved to <a href="https://login.live.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&amp;rpsnv=11&amp;checkda=1&amp;ct=1321044850&amp;rver=6.1.6195.0&amp;wp=MBI&amp;wreply=http:%2F%2Fwww.windowsphone.com%2Fen-US%2Fapps%2Fea39f002-ac30-e011-854c-00237de2db9e&amp;lc=1033&amp;id=268289">here</a>.
        </h2>
    </body>
</html>

I'm trying to spoof the referral header to be the site, but it seems I'm doing it wrong. Code is below. Any suggestions? Thanks

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/ea39f002-ac30-e011-854c-00237de2db9e');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.897.0 Safari/535.6'); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/ea39f002-ac30-e011-854c-00237de2db9e");

$html = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

Using cURL to download a site's HTML source, but getting different file than intended

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