PHP cURL gives an http error code 302 "Access denied" even when CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION is enabled?

Question

I am sometimes encountering an http error code 302 when using cURL in PHP. For instance with the following code, I get a 302 "Access denied", "You don't have permission to access the requested URL on this server." error.

$url = 'https://www.macys.com';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:100.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/100.0');
$contents = curl_exec($ch);
$curl_info = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print_r($curl_info);
echo $contents;

I searched and found this thread, which says:

This is because your setup has either safe mode or open_basedir settings in the php.ini.

However, it seems safe mode is removed (I have PHP 8.1), and in my cPanel MultiPHP Ini Editor I couldn't find open_basedir. I did find a setting enable_dl (dynamic loading) which mentioned open_basedir, and enabled that, but still got the 302 error.

What might be the issue here? Why is cURL not following the redirect? Is there something wrong with my code?

As per the error it seems `open_basedir` needs to be `off` as well — Alive to die - Anant, Jun 07 '22 at 05:22
try to check if open_basedir is off or on from this post https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21427211/check-if-open-basedir-restriction-is-in-effect — Giacomo M, Jun 07 '22 at 05:49
ini_get('open_basedir'); gives me a blank string. What should the value be for CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION to work properly? — Tristan, Jun 07 '22 at 16:16

PHP cURL gives an http error code 302 "Access denied" even when CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION is enabled?

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