$url = 'http://bhndev.spaces.msn.com/blog/';
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 2);
  $data = curl_exec($ch);

$return_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
echo $return_code;