title: How can I get the destination URL using cURL?
body: <p>How can I get the destination URL using cURL when the HTTP status code is 302?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?PHP
  $url = "http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/";
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  $html = curl_exec($ch);
  $status_code = curl_getinfo($ch,CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
  
  if($status_code=302 or $status_code=301){
    $url = "";
    // I want to to get the destination url
  }
  curl_close($ch);
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>