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File: untiny.php
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Class: untiny
Determine the pages where short URLs lead
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Date: 15 years ago
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<?php
/*
 * Author: James Hinds
 * The author makes no claims regarding copyrights. Do with it what you will.
 *
 * Problem: Where do those tinyurl's really point to?
 *
 * This class will follow the 'Location:' headers and return the last one
 * from the HTTP responses as they comes through.
 *
 * The body of the final HTML site is not accessed to avoid useless data transfers.
 *
 * For more info on CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION and CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION see:
 * <http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_setopt.html>
 * */
class untiny {
    var
$location;
    var
$errorMsg;

// requires libcurl support for PHP (Rev level 7.7.2 or above)
function read_header($ch, $string)
{
   
//libcurl must see the exact length of the untrimmed input string
    
$length = strlen($string);
    
// but we dont want any trailing \r \n or other stuff
    
$string=trim($string);
     if(
preg_match('/Location:(.*)/',$string,$dummy)) {
        
$this->location = trim($dummy[1]);
     }
    
//echo "Header: $string\n";
    
return $length;
}

function
resolveError () {
    return
$this->errorMsg;
}

function
untiny_url($url) {
   
// pass in the url to resolve, we return the final destination or false
   
$this->location = $url;
   
$this->errorMsg = "";

   
$ch = curl_init();
   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
   
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY,1);

    
//Set callback function for headers
    
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, array($this, 'read_header'));

    
curl_exec($ch);
    
$this->errorMsg = curl_error($ch);
    
// Do not re-use the curl channel
    
curl_close($ch);

     return
$this->errorMsg?false:$this->location;
 }

}

$test_me=true;
if (
$test_me ) {
   
$resolve = new untiny();
    if (
$final = $resolve->untiny_url('http://tinyurl.com/cm6kcz')) {
        echo(
"Resolves to $final\n");
    }
    if (
$final = $resolve->untiny_url('http://romancecapitol.com/')) {
        echo(
"Resolves to $final\n");
    }
    if (
$final = $resolve->untiny_url('http://www.romancecapitol.com/')) {
        echo(
"Resolves to $final\n");
    }
}

?>