Example script:

<?php /* -*- mode: c++; minor-mode: font -*- */ 
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$url = 'http://www.php.net';
$curld = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curld, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curld, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_exec($curld);
echo curl_getinfo($curld, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
curl_close($curld);
?>

Output (typical):
??wall or eat it for lunch.  Welcome to
the world of Open Source software!  
Smile, be happy, the world is good.  For the full legalese, see the 
official license.


Year 2000 Compliance
?@ ?@H(`?@C compiler or yo??H@?Y@?NK@????c?G

Curl version in use: 7.4.1.Echoing the return value from
curl_exec() in the above example shows the correct data.
curl_errno() returns -1073749044.