curl-and-php
Fw: HTTP HEAD request??
From: Marc Richards <mrichar1_at_swarthmore.edu>
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 11:42:30 -0400
"Daniel Stenberg" <daniel@haxx.se> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.58.0310031505310.18734@linux3.contactor.se...
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Marc Richards wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to do a http HEAD (instead of GET, POST or PUT) request using
> > the php curl extension? I know that curl itself can do it, but I wasn't
> > able to find the appropriate CURLOPT constant in the documentation for the
> > php extension.
>
> CURLOPT_NOBODY is the name of the option in libcurl.
Does that actually do a HEAD or does it just do a GET and discard the body?
I don't want to stress the server unneccesarily.
Marc
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Received on 2003-10-03
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 11:42:30 -0400
"Daniel Stenberg" <daniel@haxx.se> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.58.0310031505310.18734@linux3.contactor.se...
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Marc Richards wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to do a http HEAD (instead of GET, POST or PUT) request using
> > the php curl extension? I know that curl itself can do it, but I wasn't
> > able to find the appropriate CURLOPT constant in the documentation for the
> > php extension.
>
> CURLOPT_NOBODY is the name of the option in libcurl.
Does that actually do a HEAD or does it just do a GET and discard the body?
I don't want to stress the server unneccesarily.
Marc