CURL “failed to open stream: Redirection limit reached” works local but not on server

Question

I have a script that works on my local machine, on a shared server, on web browser, but not on VPS .

I use CURL to download a webpage's HTML, for example this url:

https://www.yes.co.il/content/YesChannelsHandler.ashx?action=GetDailyShowsByDayAndChannelCode&dayValue=0&dayPartByHalfHour=37&channelCode=YSAL

It fails with an error:

failed to open stream: Redirection limit reached

The VPS php version is: PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.3

Any ideas how to solve this issue?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Your VPS has a different max redirection limit then the other environments. You should be able to increase it using the cUrl PHP option CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS.

Assuming you are using the resource name $ch:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10);

Answer 2

Your version works locally, but not on the server. And, it seems that you are accessing https://. So, try with:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

Also, find out how many redirection are happening, and if possible, give the last URL in the redirect.

Answer 3

What about follow location setting? Did you try?