Returning header as array using Curl

Question

I\'m trying to get the response & the response headers from CURL using PHP, specifically for Content-Disposition: attachment; so I can return the filename passed within

Answer 1

Here, this should do it:

curl_setopt($this->_ch, CURLOPT_URL, $this->_url);
curl_setopt($this->_ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($this->_ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$response = curl_exec($this->_ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($this->_ch);

$headers = get_headers_from_curl_response($response);

function get_headers_from_curl_response($response)
{
    $headers = array();

    $header_text = substr($response, 0, strpos($response, "\r\n\r\n"));

    foreach (explode("\r\n", $header_text) as $i => $line)
        if ($i === 0)
            $headers['http_code'] = $line;
        else
        {
            list ($key, $value) = explode(': ', $line);

            $headers[$key] = $value;
        }

    return $headers;
}

Answer 2

You can use http_parse_headers function.

It comes from PECL but you will find fallbacks in this SO thread.

Answer 3

Simple and straightforward

$headers = [];
// Get the response body as string
$response = curl_exec($curl);
// Get the response headers as string
$headerSize = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE);
// Get the substring of the headers and explode as an array by \r\n
// Each element of the array will be a string `Header-Key: Header-Value`
// Retrieve this two parts with a simple regex `/(.*?): (.*)/`
foreach(explode("\r\n", trim(substr($response, 0, $headerSize))) as $row) {
    if(preg_match('/(.*?): (.*)/', $row, $matches)) {
        $headers[$matches[1]] = $matches[2];
    }
}