Curl fails after following 50 redirects but wget works fine
curl, php, redirect, web-crawler, wget
Solution
This is probably because you didn't tell curl to use cookies, which it doesn't do unless you ask it to - while wget enables them by default.
Use the --cookie or --cookie-jar options to enable cookies.
Problem
I have an experimental PHP based web crawler and I noticed that it cannot read some pages, for example on some particular domains curl says it failed after following 50 redirects but wget reads that same domain just fine: `curl 'netflix.com' -L -o 'output.txt'` Result: `curl: (47) Maximum (50) redirects followed` No data in output.txt file. While this command works fine: `wget netflix.com` Any ideas on what can cause this? I doubt that remote server handles requests based on the two different user agents.