I’m using curl in PHP to check the HTTP code when requesting some files, I’m trying to make my speed run faster so I’m wondering is there a way to make it get the HTTP code without actually getting the web page from the remote host
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I’m using curl in PHP to check the HTTP code when requesting some files, I’m trying to make my speed run faster so I’m wondering is there a way to make it get the HTTP code without actually getting the web page from the remote host
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CURLOPT_NOBODYto true. This means that rather than preforming a GET or POST request, a HEAD request will be preformed so the remote server will only return the HTTP header.There is also some example code in this answer