curl redirect to wrong page?

Question

i am using curl and i am passing url, with page no=2 but it redirect to first page.i need your help please help me

example if i passed= http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/mobile-software- applications/id6018?mt=8&letter=A&page=2#page

it redirect to= http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/mobile-software- applications/id6018?mt=8&letter=A&page=1#page

<?php

$agent= 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0';

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);


curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/mobile-software-  applications/id6018?mt=8&letter=A&page=2#page");  


curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);  

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookie.txt');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");


if(curl_exec($ch) === false)
{

  echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}
else{

  echo $output = curl_exec($ch);  
}

curl_close($ch);  

?>

but it always redirect to first page I am not getting page 2 or given url.

Answer 1

Try removing the hashed part from your URL:

#page

so that the URL looks like so:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/mobile-software-
applications/id6018?mt=8&letter=A&page=2");

(line break added for readability)

the hash part must never be sent to the server, it is used by the browser to navigate to parts of the page.