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get_headers(3) [php man page]

GET_HEADERS(3)								 1							    GET_HEADERS(3)

get_headers - Fetches all the headers sent by the server in response to a HTTP request

SYNOPSIS
array get_headers (string $url, [int $format]) DESCRIPTION
get_headers(3) returns an array with the headers sent by the server in response to a HTTP request. PARAMETERS
o $url - The target URL. o $format - If the optional $format parameter is set to non-zero, get_headers(3) parses the response and sets the array's keys. RETURN VALUES
Returns an indexed or associative array with the headers, or FALSE on failure. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.1.3 | | | | | | | This function now uses the default stream con- | | | text, which can be set/changed with the | | | stream_context_set_default(3) function. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 get_headers(3) example <?php $url = 'http://www.example.com'; print_r(get_headers($url)); print_r(get_headers($url, 1)); ?> The above example will output something similar to: Array ( [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK [1] => Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 12:28:13 GMT [2] => Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) [3] => Last-Modified: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:11:55 GMT [4] => ETag: "3f80f-1b6-3e1cb03b" [5] => Accept-Ranges: bytes [6] => Content-Length: 438 [7] => Connection: close [8] => Content-Type: text/html ) Array ( [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK [Date] => Sat, 29 May 2004 12:28:14 GMT [Server] => Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) [Last-Modified] => Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:11:55 GMT [ETag] => "3f80f-1b6-3e1cb03b" [Accept-Ranges] => bytes [Content-Length] => 438 [Connection] => close [Content-Type] => text/html ) Example #2 get_headers(3) using HEAD example <?php // By default get_headers uses a GET request to fetch the headers. If you // want to send a HEAD request instead, you can do so using a stream context: stream_context_set_default( array( 'http' => array( 'method' => 'HEAD' ) ) ); $headers = get_headers('http://example.com'); ?> SEE ALSO
apache_request_headers(3). PHP Documentation Group GET_HEADERS(3)

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HTTP_GET(3)								 1							       HTTP_GET(3)

http_get - Perform GET request

SYNOPSIS
string http_get (string $url, [array $options], [array &$info]) DESCRIPTION
Performs an HTTP GET request on the supplied url. See the full list of request options. PARAMETERS
o $url - URL o $options -request options o $info - Will be filled with request/response information RETURN VALUES
Returns the HTTP response(s) as string on success, or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 A http_get(3) example <?php $response = http_get("http://www.example.com/", array("timeout"=>1), $info); print_r($info); ?> The above example will output: array ( 'effective_url' => 'http://www.example.com/', 'response_code' => 302, 'connect_code' => 0, 'filetime' => -1, 'total_time' => 0.212348, 'namelookup_time' => 0.038296, 'connect_time' => 0.104144, 'pretransfer_time' => 0.104307, 'starttransfer_time' => 0.212077, 'redirect_time' => 0, 'redirect_count' => 0, 'size_upload' => 0, 'size_download' => 218, 'speed_download' => 1026, 'speed_upload' => 0, 'header_size' => 307, 'request_size' => 103, 'ssl_verifyresult' => 0, 'ssl_engines' => array ( 0 => 'dynamic', 1 => 'cswift', 2 => 'chil', 3 => 'atalla', 4 => 'nuron', 5 => 'ubsec', 6 => 'aep', 7 => 'sureware', 8 => '4758cca', ), 'content_length_download' => 218, 'content_length_upload' => 0, 'content_type' => 'text/html', 'httpauth_avail' => 0, 'proxyauth_avail' => 0, 'num_connects' => 1, 'os_errno' => 0, 'error' => '', ) PHP Documentation Group HTTP_GET(3)
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