Retrieving https redirects using cURL

[saiprem]

Hi All, i am new to this forum, hope i will get the solution to my prob here.
I am using curl function to retrieve the data from a site, actually it is a https://www.examplesite.com.
i gave http://www.examplesite.com in curl function. it is not displaying any thing. Not able to redirect from the http to https even if i used FOLLOLOCATION.

Actually if you try the same in browser http://www.examplesite.com then it will redirects you to the https://www.examplesite.com.

Here is my source
<?php
$url = "http://www.examplesite.com"; //Let me say for example take paypal.com and try
$connection = curl_init();
curl_setopt($connection, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($connection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$result = curl_exec($connection);
curl_close($connection);

echo $result;
?>

Look at the code.

Any help on this greatly appreciated.

Best Regards
Prem