Does cURL NOBODY actually fetch the body?

Question

I\'m not sure if this function in CURL just strips the response body out but still load it fully. Is that true? I don\'t want to waste bandwidth, I just want the headers.

Answer 1

CURLOPT_NOBODY will send a HEAD request to web server. The server should respond with just the HTTP headers and no body content.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html

The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message-body in the response.