PHP: get_headers set temporary stream_context

Question

I guess PHP\'s get_headers does not allow for a context, so I have to change the default stream context to only get the HEAD of a request. This causes some issues with othe

Answer 1

I had a similar issue but I just used the file_get_contents function with the custom stream context instead.

Here's how I implemented it:

$options = array(
               'http' => array(
                     'method' => 'HEAD',
                     'follow_location' => 0
                )
           );

$context = stream_context_create($options);

@file_get_contents($url, NULL, $context);

var_dump($http_response_header);

Using this context only the headers will be fetched by file_get_contents and will populate the $http_response_header PHP variable.