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Re: problem with site using meta refresh to a different page

From: Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:56:17 -0600

You have to extract the URL from the meta-refresh, then go get it.
Curl doesn't try to interpret the refresh tags, or any other page
content.

Ralph Mitchell

On 1/27/06, Kenneth Andresen <kandresen_at_gmx.net> wrote:
> I am having a couple of different problems using libcurl to get
> information from a page who use refresh with a different page as follows:
>
> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;
> URL=http://www.site.com/en/index.htm">
>
> How can I mimic the browsers way to follow such a link while showing the
> result from within my system?
>
Received on 2006-01-27