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+ To trace a series of redirects using curl what you want to see are the http header sections. You can get that with the -I or --head flag. Add -L or --location for location related information (redirects) and you're good to go.
+ to execute a url from the server using PHP as an alternative to Curl, can use exec(wget $url) or fopen($url, "r") or file_get_contents($url);
+ curl_exec Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. However, if the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option is set, it will return the result on success, FALSE on failure
+ Can you get all dynamic text on a page, as added by JavaScript run by the browser, using CURL? No


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