PHP: lame recursive curl

<?


function getContents($url,$count=0)
{

echo "<h2>getContents at time: ".time()."</h2>";

$cookie="cookie.txt";

$ch=curl_init();
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
if(file_exists($cookie)) curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, file_get_contents($cookie));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

$content = curl_exec( $ch );
$info  = curl_getinfo( $ch );

curl_close ( $ch );

echo"<h2>url</h2>".$url;

echo"<br><h2>$cookie to send</h2>";
readfile($cookie);

echo"<br><h2>response</h2>";

$content=split("\r\n",$content); // parse response headers
echo"<table>";
$redirect="";
foreach($content as $c) // go thru all headers
{
  if($k!="Content-Type") // after this header is usually site html
  {
    list($k,$v)=split(": ",$c); // parse heading data
    echo"<tr><td>$k</td><td>$v</td></tr>"; // show it

    if($k=="Set-Cookie") // if cookie, save it
    {
      $fh = fopen($cookie, 'w');
      fwrite($fh, $v);
      fclose($fh);
    }
    if($k=="Location") // if redirect, save to redirect
    {
      $redirect=$v;
    }
  }
}
echo"</table>";

echo"<br><h2>info</h2>";
var_dump($info);

echo"<br /><br /><br /><br />";

if($redirect!="")
{
  if($count>2) echo "<h1>alot of redirects, halting</h1>";
  else return getContents($redirect,$count+1);
}
else
{
  echo"<h1>total $count redirects</h1>";
  return $c;
}

}

$c=getContents("https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Freebie-Tropical-Palm-Tree-with-flexi-leafs/2214529");

echo "<h1>desired content</h1>$c";

?>