curl follow location error

Question

Hi,

I got this error message: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in.

safe_mode is turned off on my web hosting. open_basedir is "".

How do I resolve this?

Thanks

Answer 1

The only place where this warning message is printed is in ext/curl/interface.c

if ((PG(open_basedir) && *PG(open_basedir)) || PG(safe_mode)) {
  if (Z_LVAL_PP(zvalue) != 0) {
    php_error_docref(NULL TSRMLS_CC, E_WARNING, "CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set");
    RETVAL_FALSE;
    return 1;
  }
}

As you can see from the if-condition either open_basedir or safe_mode must be enabled.

Answer 2

can you give some code snippet?

Answer 3

I encountered a similar situation a while back and found the solution below. If you know generally where you'll be redirected to this might work for you.

    function curl($url, $postVars)
{
    $go = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt ($go, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($go, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);

    //follow on location problems
    if (ini_get('open_basedir') == '' && ini_get('safe_mode' == 'Off'))
    {
        curl_setopt ($go, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, $l);
        $syn = curl_exec($go);
        if(curl_error($go))
            return false;
    }
    else
        $syn = curl_redir_exec($go, $postVars);
    curl_close($go);
    return $syn;
}

function curl_redir_exec($ch, $postVars)
{
    static $curl_loops = 0;
    static $curl_max_loops = 20;
    if ($curl_loops++>= $curl_max_loops)
    {
        $curl_loops = 0;
        return FALSE;
    }
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postVars);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);

    $data = curl_exec($ch);
    if(curl_error($ch))
        return false;
    list($header, $data) = explode("\n\r", $data, 2);
    $http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

    $redirect_page = "[0-9]*.html";
    $base_redirect = "http://example.com/";

    if ($http_code == 301 || $http_code == 302)
    {
        $matches = array();
        $pregs = eregi($redirect_page, $data, $matches);
        $new_url = $base_redirect . $matches[0];
        if (!$new_url)
        {
            //couldn't process the url to redirect to
            $curl_loops = 0;
            return $data;
        }
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $new_url);

        return curl_redir_exec($ch, $postVars);
    }
    else
    {
        $curl_loops=0;
        return $data;
    }
}