How can PHP automatically follow 301/302 redirects when reading website content via HTTP?

When reading website content via HTTP in PHP, you can use the cURL library to automatically follow 301/302 redirects. By setting the `CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION` option to `true`, cURL will handle the redirects internally, so you don't have to manually handle them in your code. 

$url = 'http://example.com';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

if($response === false){
    echo 'Error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}

curl_close($ch);

echo $response;

Keywords

PHP HTTP redirects cURL headers

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