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Aminah Nuraini
Aminah Nuraini

Reputation: 19186

Can curl HTTPS but not HTTP

I can do:

curl https://example.com

but not:

curl http://example.com

The difference is only HTTP and HTTPS. Why is that? How can I make the curl follow the redirect to HTTPS without me have to modify the URL manually? CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, doesn't work.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1864

Answers (1)

Aniket Sahrawat
Aniket Sahrawat

Reputation: 12937

curl does not follow redirect without -L option. It looks like the website link you shared has some kind of rewritRule to rewrite http pages to https and hence you get not found error when you curl.

If there is no rewriteRule for http, then only you will be able to curl url.

If you want to use http for a https site, you can use 

curl -L "http://example.com"

-L follows redirect.

Alternatively you can also write this in php:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

where $ch = curl_init();

Upvotes: 1

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