4.14 Redirects work in browser but not with curl!

Updated: August 7, 2005 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)

Updated: August 26, 2005 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)

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  4.11 Why does my HTTP range requests return the full document?

  4.12 Why do I get "certificate verify failed" ?

  4.13 Why is curl -R on Windows one hour off?

  4.14 Redirects work in browser but not with curl!

 5. libcurl Issues

  5.1 Is libcurl thread-safe?

     curl -L http://redirector.com

  Not all redirects are HTTP ones, see 4.14

  3.9 How do I use curl in my favorite programming language?

  There exist many language interfaces/bindings for curl that integrates it

  uses file modification times and it is not easily worked around. For details

  on this problem, read this: http://www.codeproject.com/datetime/dstbugs.asp

  4.14 Redirects work in browser but not with curl!

  curl supports HTTP redirects fine (see item 3.8). Browsers generally support

  at least two other ways to perform directs that curl does not:

    1 - Meta tags. You can write a HTML tag that will cause the browser to

        redirect to another given URL after a certain time.

    2 - Javascript. You can write a javascript program embeded in a HTML page

        that redirects the browser to another given URL.

  There is no way to make curl follow these redirects. You must either

  manually figure out what the page is set to do, or you write a script that

  parses the results and fetches the new URL.

5. libcurl Issues