curl-and-php
Re: Fw: HTTP HEAD request??
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:02:09 +0200 (CEST)
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:02:09 +0200 (CEST)
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Marc Richards wrote:
> > 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.
It uses HEAD, as you can easily verify by using VERBOSE or similar.
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