get_headers
(PHP 5)
get_headers — Fetches all the headers sent by the server in response to a HTTP request
Description
array get_headers
( string $url
[, int $format = 0
] )
get_headers() returns an array with the headers sent by the server in response to a HTTP request.
Parameters
- url
-
The target URL.
- format
-
If the optional format parameter is set to non-zero, get_headers() parses the response and sets the array's keys.
Return Values
Returns an indexed or associative array with the headers, or FALSE on failure.
Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 5.1.3 | This function now uses the default stream context, which can be set/changed with the stream_context_get_default() function. |
Examples
Example #1 get_headers() example
<?php
$url = 'http://www.example.com';
print_r(get_headers($url));
print_r(get_headers($url, 1));
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
Array
(
[0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[1] => Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 12:28:13 GMT
[2] => Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux)
[3] => Last-Modified: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:11:55 GMT
[4] => ETag: "3f80f-1b6-3e1cb03b"
[5] => Accept-Ranges: bytes
[6] => Content-Length: 438
[7] => Connection: close
[8] => Content-Type: text/html
)
Array
(
[0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[Date] => Sat, 29 May 2004 12:28:14 GMT
[Server] => Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux)
[Last-Modified] => Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:11:55 GMT
[ETag] => "3f80f-1b6-3e1cb03b"
[Accept-Ranges] => bytes
[Content-Length] => 438
[Connection] => close
[Content-Type] => text/html
)