I continue to develop Curl library for CodeIgniter and today’s blog post is about the new version. What’s new in this release?

First of all, request and response headers are supported now. You may specify your own request header in http_get and http_post methods:

$headers = array(
  'Authorization: AuthSub token="' . $_POST['token'] . '"',
  'X-Google-Key: key=' . $developerKey,
  'Content-Type: application/atom+xml'
);
$this->curl->http_post($url, $postfields, $headers);

As for response headers, you have an access to them now through the $headers variable:

echo $this->curl->headers;

One more feature that I want to tell you is automatic redirect support. Look at this code:

$this->curl->http_get('http://google.com');

Curl library will parse headers (or use CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION curl option if possible) and automatically redirect to http://www.google.com.

To know what’s the final URL of HTTP GET/POST operation you can use $url variable:

echo $this->curl->url;

If for some reasons you do not want to use automatic redirect feature, use this code:

$this->curl->open(array('follow_location' => false)); // during initialization
// or
$this->curl->follow_location = false;

And the last thing I want to tell is a small bonus: abs_url function which will help you to convert relative URL to absolute one.

$absolute_url = $this->curl->abs_url('../test.html', 'http://example.com/path/to');

Download Curl library 1.1 for CodeIgniter