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 [, bool format])

get_headers() returns an array with the headers sent by the server in response to a HTTP request.

If the optional format parameter is TRUE, get_headers() parses the response and sets the array's keys.

Example 1. get_headers() example

<?php
$url
= 'http://www.example.com';

print_r(get_headers($url));

print_r(get_headers($url, true));
?>

The above example will output something like:

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
)