4.14 Redirects work in browser but not with curl!

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-Updated: August 7, 2005 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
+Updated: August 26, 2005 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
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   4.11 Why does my HTTP range requests return the full document?
   4.12 Why do I get "certificate verify failed" ?
   4.13 Why is curl -R on Windows one hour off?
+  4.14 Redirects work in browser but not with curl!
 
  5. libcurl Issues
   5.1 Is libcurl thread-safe?
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      curl -L http://redirector.com
 
+  Not all redirects are HTTP ones, see 4.14
+
   3.9 How do I use curl in my favorite programming language?
 
   There exist many language interfaces/bindings for curl that integrates it
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   uses file modification times and it is not easily worked around. For details
   on this problem, read this: http://www.codeproject.com/datetime/dstbugs.asp
 
+  4.14 Redirects work in browser but not with curl!
+
+  curl supports HTTP redirects fine (see item 3.8). Browsers generally support
+  at least two other ways to perform directs that curl does not:
+
+    1 - Meta tags. You can write a HTML tag that will cause the browser to
+        redirect to another given URL after a certain time.
+
+    2 - Javascript. You can write a javascript program embeded in a HTML page
+        that redirects the browser to another given URL.
+
+  There is no way to make curl follow these redirects. You must either
+  manually figure out what the page is set to do, or you write a script that
+  parses the results and fetches the new URL.
+
 
 5. libcurl Issues