php - How can I get the destination URL using cURL?

Question

How can I get the destination URL using cURL when the HTTP status code is 302?

<?PHP
$url = "http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$html = curl_exec($ch);
$status_code = curl_getinfo($ch,CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

if($status_code=302 or $status_code=301){
  $url = "";
  // I want to to get the destination url
}
curl_close($ch);
?>

Answer 1

You can use:

echo curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);