curl_exec_follow($ch, &$maxredirect = null) {

$user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5)".
" Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent );

$mr = $maxredirect === null ? 5 : intval($maxredirect);

if (ini_get('open_basedir') == '' && ini_get('safe_mode') == 'Off') {

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, $mr > 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, $mr);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

} else {

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false);

if ($mr > 0)
{
$original_url = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
$newurl = $original_url;

$rch = curl_copy_handle($ch);

curl_setopt($rch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($rch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
curl_setopt($rch, CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE, false);
do
{
curl_setopt($rch, CURLOPT_URL, $newurl);
$header = curl_exec($rch);
if (curl_errno($rch)) {
$code = 0;
} else {
$code = curl_getinfo($rch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ($code == 301 || $code == 302) {
preg_match('/Location.*?)\n/', $header, $matches);
$newurl = trim(array_pop($matches));

// if no scheme is present then the new url is a
// relative path and thus needs some extra care
if(!preg_match("/^https?:/i", $newurl)){
$newurl = $original_url . $newurl;
}
} else {
$code = 0;
}
}
} while ($code && --$mr);

curl_close($rch);

if (!$mr)
{
if ($maxredirect === null)
trigger_error('Too many redirects.', E_USER_WARNING);
else
$maxredirect = 0;

return false;
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $newurl);
}
}
return curl_exec($ch);
}