On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 theexperts_at_allprodirect.com wrote:

> Okay, I figured it out!
>
> Thanks Daniel for the suggestion of using a packet sniffer. That really
> helped me figure this out.
>
> It's not any kind of blockage on the part of the remote host... it's a
> problem with curl, specifically version 7.9.3 according to Bugs item
> #508235. I.e. a problem following redirects.

Wow. Nice going there, even figuring out the exact bug report. I had forgot
about that one...! ;-)

> Okay, mystery solved. Now how to get my hosting provider to upgrade to
> 7.9.5... :-( (would it be a pain for them?)

Speaking on the behalf of libcurl, no.

I really can't tell if it'll cause any problems in PHP land. I really can't
see any reason why it would differ from how it was made with the version
7.9.3 though.

-- 
    Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/