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24 /* <DESC>
25  * Show how to extract Location: header and URL to redirect to.
26  * </DESC>
27  */
28 #include <stdio.h>
29 #include <curl/curl.h>
30 
main(void)31 int main(void)
32 {
33   CURL *curl;
34   CURLcode res;
35   char *location;
36   long response_code;
37 
38   curl = curl_easy_init();
39   if(curl) {
40     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
41 
42     /* example.com is redirected, figure out the redirection! */
43 
44     /* Perform the request, res gets the return code */
45     res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
46     /* Check for errors */
47     if(res != CURLE_OK)
48       fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
49               curl_easy_strerror(res));
50     else {
51       res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE, &response_code);
52       if((res == CURLE_OK) &&
53          ((response_code / 100) != 3)) {
54         /* a redirect implies a 3xx response code */
55         fprintf(stderr, "Not a redirect.\n");
56       }
57       else {
58         res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL, &location);
59 
60         if((res == CURLE_OK) && location) {
61           /* This is the new absolute URL that you could redirect to, even if
62            * the Location: response header may have been a relative URL. */
63           printf("Redirected to: %s\n", location);
64         }
65       }
66     }
67 
68     /* always cleanup */
69     curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
70   }
71   return 0;
72 }
73