What is the easiest way to use the HEAD command of HTTP in PHP?

Question

I would like to send the HEAD command of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol to a server in PHP to retrieve the header, but not the content or a URL. How do I do this in an effi

Answer 1

Use can use Guzzle Client, it use CURL library but more simple and optimized.

installation:

composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle

example in your case:

// create guzzle object
$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

// send request
$response = $client->head("https://example.com");

// extract headers from response
$headers = $response->getHeaders();

Fast and easy.

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