Question

Basically, I’m trying to log into a site. I’ve got it logging in, but the site redirects to another part of the site, and upon doing so, it redirects my browser as well.

For example:

It successfully logs into http://example.com/login.php

But then my browser goes to http://mysite.com/site.php?page=loggedin

I just want it to return the contents of the page, not be redirected to it.

How would I do this?

As requested, here is my code

// create curl resource 
$ch = curl_init(); 

// set url 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $loginURL); 

//Some setopts
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postFields);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWREDIRECT, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERRER, $referrer);

// $output contains the output string 
$output = curl_exec($ch); 

// close curl resource to free up system resources 
curl_close($ch);

echo $output;   

Answer 1

Figured it out. The webpage was echoing a meta refresh, and since I was echoing the output, my browser followed.

Removed the echo $output; and it no longer does that.

I feel kind of dumb for not recognizing that in the beginning.

Thanks everyone.