getting real link from rss feed link

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Published on 2010-05-08T16:04:42Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 16:08 UTC
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I am experimenting with scraping certain pages from an RSS feed using curl and php. The page scraping was working fine when I was just using actual links, not links from the rss feeds. However, I realize now that links in rss feeds are usually just redirects to the actual page (at least this is what it seems like). Because now when I scrape a page with the rss link, it doesn't actually get the information I am looking for.

Has anyone encountered this and know of a workaround. Is there anyway to see where the rss link is redirecting to and capturing that value?

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