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I'm writing a script that will use cURL to check a number of links. I know I can use curl_getinfo() to get the http status code, but I'm not sure if that requests the entire page or just the response with the headers. Is there any curl option or setting I can use to only request the headers of the URL (i.e. 404 not found, moved, etc) ?

Steve
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You can instruct cURL to not download the contents (body) of the request by setting the CURLOPT_NOBODY option to TRUE - see Does CURLOPT_NOBODY still download the body - using bandwidth

p.s. curl_getinfo() does not make requests - it gets information from requests that have already been executed.

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Emanuil Rusev
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