PHP cURL hyperlink issue - php

Question

I've written some simple code which should enable the retrieval of a given webpage, in this case Google.
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.google.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>
Although it works, I've noticed when I click some of the hyperlinks, for instance the 'Privacy' hyperlink, I get redirected to http://mywebsite.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ which obviously doesn't exist. Why does this happen? And is it possible to get redirected to the correct link?

Answer 1

<?php
function cURL() {
// Create a new cURL resource
$curl = curl_init();
if (!$curl) {
die("Couldn't initialize a cURL handle");
}
// Set the file URL to fetch through cURL
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://ctrlq.org/");
// Set a different user agent string (Googlebot)
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)');
// Follow redirects, if any
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
// Fail the cURL request if response code = 400 (like 404 errors)
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
// Return the actual result of the curl result instead of success code
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Wait for 10 seconds to connect, set 0 to wait indefinitely
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
// Execute the cURL request for a maximum of 50 seconds
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 50);
// Do not check the SSL certificates
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
// Fetch the URL and save the content in $html variable
$html = curl_exec($curl);
// Check if any error has occurred
if (curl_errno($curl))
{
echo 'cURL error: ' . curl_error($curl);
}
else
{
// cURL executed successfully
print_r(curl_getinfo($curl));
}
// close cURL resource to free up system resources
curl_close($curl);
}
?>