Easy way to test a URL for 404 in PHP

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I m teaching myself some basic scraping and I ve found that sometimes the URL s that I feed into my code return 404  which gums up all the rest of my code   So I need a test at the top of the code to check if the URL returns 404 or not   This would seem like a pretty straightfoward task  but Google s not giving me any answers   I worry I m searching for the wrong stuff   One blog recommended I use this    valid    fsockopen  url  80   errno   errstr  30     and then test to see if  valid if empty or not   But I think the URL that s giving me problems has a redirect on it  so  valid is coming up empty for all values   Or perhaps I m doing something else wrong   I ve also looked into a  head request  but I ve yet to find any actual code examples I can play with or try out    Suggestions   And what s this about curl

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I found this answer here   if   twitter XML raw file get contents  timeline    false          Retrieve HTTP status code     list  version  status code  msg    explode      http response header 0   3           Check the HTTP Status code     switch  status code            case 200                   error status  200  Success                   break          case 401                   error status  401  Login failure   Try logging out and back in   Password are ONLY used when posting                    break          case 400                   error status  400  Invalid request   You may have exceeded your rate limit                    break          case 404                   error status  404  Not found   This shouldn t happen   Please let me know what happened using the feedback link above                    break          case 500                   error status  500  Twitter servers replied with an error  Hopefully they ll be OK soon                    break          case 502                   error status  502  Twitter servers may be down or being upgraded  Hopefully they ll be OK soon                    break          case 503                   error status  503  Twitter service unavailable  Hopefully they ll be OK soon                    break          default                   error status  Undocumented error       status code                  break          Essentially  you use the  file get contents  method to retrieve the URL  which automatically populates the http response header variable with the status code

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this is just and slice of code  hope works for you               ch    curl init                 curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   http   example com                 curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT USERAGENT   Mozilla 5 0  Windows  U  Windows NT 5 1  en-US  rv 1 8 1 1  Gecko 20061204 Firefox 2 0 0 1                 curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1                curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION  1                curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT TIMEOUT  10                 response          curl exec  ch                errno             curl errno  ch                error             curl error  ch                         response    response                       info    curl getinfo  ch   return  info  http code

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With strager s code  you can also check the CURLINFO HTTP CODE for other codes  Some websites do not report a 404  rather they simply redirect to a custom 404 page and return 302  redirect  or something similar  I used this to check if an actual file  eg  robots txt  existed on the server or not  Clearly this kind of file would not cause a redirect if it existed  but if it didn t it would redirect to a 404 page  which as I said before may not have a 404 code   function is 404  url         handle   curl init  url       curl setopt  handle   CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  TRUE           Get the HTML or whatever is linked in  url          response   curl exec  handle           Check for 404  file not found           httpCode   curl getinfo  handle  CURLINFO HTTP CODE       curl close  handle           If the document has loaded successfully without any redirection or error        if   httpCode  gt   200  amp  amp   httpCode  lt  300            return false        else           return true

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this is just and slice of code  hope works for you               ch    curl init                 curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   http   example com                 curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT USERAGENT   Mozilla 5 0  Windows  U  Windows NT 5 1  en-US  rv 1 8 1 1  Gecko 20061204 Firefox 2 0 0 1                 curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1                curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION  1                curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT TIMEOUT  10                 response          curl exec  ch                errno             curl errno  ch                error             curl error  ch                         response    response                       info    curl getinfo  ch   return  info  http code

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With strager s code  you can also check the CURLINFO HTTP CODE for other codes  Some websites do not report a 404  rather they simply redirect to a custom 404 page and return 302  redirect  or something similar  I used this to check if an actual file  eg  robots txt  existed on the server or not  Clearly this kind of file would not cause a redirect if it existed  but if it didn t it would redirect to a 404 page  which as I said before may not have a 404 code   function is 404  url         handle   curl init  url       curl setopt  handle   CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  TRUE           Get the HTML or whatever is linked in  url          response   curl exec  handle           Check for 404  file not found           httpCode   curl getinfo  handle  CURLINFO HTTP CODE       curl close  handle           If the document has loaded successfully without any redirection or error        if   httpCode  gt   200  amp  amp   httpCode  lt  300            return false        else           return true

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I found this answer here   if   twitter XML raw file get contents  timeline    false          Retrieve HTTP status code     list  version  status code  msg    explode      http response header 0   3           Check the HTTP Status code     switch  status code            case 200                   error status  200  Success                   break          case 401                   error status  401  Login failure   Try logging out and back in   Password are ONLY used when posting                    break          case 400                   error status  400  Invalid request   You may have exceeded your rate limit                    break          case 404                   error status  404  Not found   This shouldn t happen   Please let me know what happened using the feedback link above                    break          case 500                   error status  500  Twitter servers replied with an error  Hopefully they ll be OK soon                    break          case 502                   error status  502  Twitter servers may be down or being upgraded  Hopefully they ll be OK soon                    break          case 503                   error status  503  Twitter service unavailable  Hopefully they ll be OK soon                    break          default                   error status  Undocumented error       status code                  break          Essentially  you use the  file get contents  method to retrieve the URL  which automatically populates the http response header variable with the status code

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This function return the status code of an URL in PHP 7           param string  url     return int     function getHttpResponseCode string  url   int        headers   get headers  url       return substr  headers 0   9  3       Example   echo getHttpResponseCode  https   www google com      displays  200

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If your running php5 you can use    url    http   www example com   print r get headers  url  1      Alternatively with php4 a user has contributed the following       This is a modified version of code from  stuart at sixletterwords dot com   at 14-Sep-2005 04 52  This version tries to emulate get headers   function at PHP4  I think it works fairly well  and is simple  It is not the best emulation available  but it works   Features  - supports  and requires  full URLs  - supports changing of default port in URL  - stops downloading from socket as soon as end-of-headers is detected   Limitations  - only gets the root URL  see line with  GET   HTTP 1 1    - don t support HTTPS  nor the default HTTPS port       if  function exists  get headers          function get headers  url  format 0                 url parse url  url            end     r n r n            fp   fsockopen  url  host     empty  url  port    80  url  port      errno   errstr  30           if   fp                         out     GET   HTTP 1 1 r n                out     Host     url  host     r n                out     Connection  Close r n r n                var                    fwrite  fp   out               while   feof  fp                                  var  fgets  fp  1280                   if strpos  var  end                       break                            fclose  fp                 var preg replace    r n r n           var                var explode   r n   var               if  format                                foreach  var as  i                                        if preg match      a-zA-Z -               i  parts                            v  parts 1    parts 2                                     return  v                            else                 return  var                      Both would have a result similar to   Array        0    gt  HTTP 1 1 200 OK      Date    gt  Sat  29 May 2004 12 28 14 GMT      Server    gt  Apache 1 3 27  Unix    Red-Hat Linux       Last-Modified    gt  Wed  08 Jan 2003 23 11 55 GMT      ETag    gt   3f80f-1b6-3e1cb03b       Accept-Ranges    gt  bytes      Content-Length    gt  438      Connection    gt  close      Content-Type    gt  text html     Therefore you could just check to see that the header response was OK eg    headers   get headers  url  1   if   headers 0      HTTP 1 1 200 OK       valid     if   headers 0      HTTP 1 1 301 Moved Permanently       moved or redirect page     W3C Codes and Definitions

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If you are using PHP s curl bindings  you can check the error code using curl getinfo as such    handle   curl init  url   curl setopt  handle   CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  TRUE       Get the HTML or whatever is linked in  url      response   curl exec  handle       Check for 404  file not found       httpCode   curl getinfo  handle  CURLINFO HTTP CODE   if  httpCode    404           Handle 404 here        curl close  handle       Handle  response here

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Here s a way    lt  php   url    http   www google com    if  file get contents  url    echo  Url Exists      else   echo  Url Doesn t Exist         gt    This simple script simply makes a request to the URL for its source code  If the request is completed successfully  it will output  URL Exists    If not  it will output  URL Doesn t Exist

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As an additional hint to the great accepted answer   When using a variation of the proposed solution  I got errors because of php setting  max execution time   So what I did was the following   set time limit 120    curl   curl init  url   curl setopt  curl  CURLOPT NOBODY  true    result   curl exec  curl   set time limit ini get  max execution time     curl close  curl     First I set the time limit to a higher number of seconds  in the end I set it back to the value defined in the php settings

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If your running php5 you can use    url    http   www example com   print r get headers  url  1      Alternatively with php4 a user has contributed the following       This is a modified version of code from  stuart at sixletterwords dot com   at 14-Sep-2005 04 52  This version tries to emulate get headers   function at PHP4  I think it works fairly well  and is simple  It is not the best emulation available  but it works   Features  - supports  and requires  full URLs  - supports changing of default port in URL  - stops downloading from socket as soon as end-of-headers is detected   Limitations  - only gets the root URL  see line with  GET   HTTP 1 1    - don t support HTTPS  nor the default HTTPS port       if  function exists  get headers          function get headers  url  format 0                 url parse url  url            end     r n r n            fp   fsockopen  url  host     empty  url  port    80  url  port      errno   errstr  30           if   fp                         out     GET   HTTP 1 1 r n                out     Host     url  host     r n                out     Connection  Close r n r n                var                    fwrite  fp   out               while   feof  fp                                  var  fgets  fp  1280                   if strpos  var  end                       break                            fclose  fp                 var preg replace    r n r n           var                var explode   r n   var               if  format                                foreach  var as  i                                        if preg match      a-zA-Z -               i  parts                            v  parts 1    parts 2                                     return  v                            else                 return  var                      Both would have a result similar to   Array        0    gt  HTTP 1 1 200 OK      Date    gt  Sat  29 May 2004 12 28 14 GMT      Server    gt  Apache 1 3 27  Unix    Red-Hat Linux       Last-Modified    gt  Wed  08 Jan 2003 23 11 55 GMT      ETag    gt   3f80f-1b6-3e1cb03b       Accept-Ranges    gt  bytes      Content-Length    gt  438      Connection    gt  close      Content-Type    gt  text html     Therefore you could just check to see that the header response was OK eg    headers   get headers  url  1   if   headers 0      HTTP 1 1 200 OK       valid     if   headers 0      HTTP 1 1 301 Moved Permanently       moved or redirect page     W3C Codes and Definitions

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As strager suggests  look into using cURL  You may also be interested in setting CURLOPT NOBODY with curl setopt to skip downloading the whole page  you just want the headers

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I found this answer here   if   twitter XML raw file get contents  timeline    false          Retrieve HTTP status code     list  version  status code  msg    explode      http response header 0   3           Check the HTTP Status code     switch  status code            case 200                   error status  200  Success                   break          case 401                   error status  401  Login failure   Try logging out and back in   Password are ONLY used when posting                    break          case 400                   error status  400  Invalid request   You may have exceeded your rate limit                    break          case 404                   error status  404  Not found   This shouldn t happen   Please let me know what happened using the feedback link above                    break          case 500                   error status  500  Twitter servers replied with an error  Hopefully they ll be OK soon                    break          case 502                   error status  502  Twitter servers may be down or being upgraded  Hopefully they ll be OK soon                    break          case 503                   error status  503  Twitter service unavailable  Hopefully they ll be OK soon                    break          default                   error status  Undocumented error       status code                  break          Essentially  you use the  file get contents  method to retrieve the URL  which automatically populates the http response header variable with the status code

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addendum tested those 3 methods considering performance   The result  at least in my testing environment    Curl wins  This test is done under the consideration that only the headers  noBody  is needed  Test yourself    url    http   de wikipedia org wiki Pinocchio     start time   microtime TRUE    headers   get headers  url   echo  headers 0    lt br gt     end time   microtime TRUE   echo  end time -  start time   lt br gt       start time   microtime TRUE    response   file get contents  url   echo  http response header 0    lt br gt     end time   microtime TRUE   echo  end time -  start time   lt br gt      start time   microtime TRUE    handle   curl init  url   curl setopt  handle   CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  TRUE   curl setopt  handle  CURLOPT NOBODY  1      and  only  get the header     Get the HTML or whatever is linked in  url      response   curl exec  handle      Check for 404  file not found       httpCode   curl getinfo  handle  CURLINFO HTTP CODE      if  httpCode    404              Handle 404 here          echo  httpCode   lt br gt    curl close  handle    end time   microtime TRUE   echo  end time -  start time   lt br gt

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As strager suggests  look into using cURL  You may also be interested in setting CURLOPT NOBODY with curl setopt to skip downloading the whole page  you just want the headers

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As an additional hint to the great accepted answer   When using a variation of the proposed solution  I got errors because of php setting  max execution time   So what I did was the following   set time limit 120    curl   curl init  url   curl setopt  curl  CURLOPT NOBODY  true    result   curl exec  curl   set time limit ini get  max execution time     curl close  curl     First I set the time limit to a higher number of seconds  in the end I set it back to the value defined in the php settings

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You can use this code too  to see the status of any link    lt  php  function get url status  url   timeout   10      ch   curl init       set cURL options  opts   array CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER   gt  true     do not output to browser             CURLOPT URL   gt   url                set URL             CURLOPT NOBODY   gt  true             do a HEAD request only             CURLOPT TIMEOUT   gt   timeout        set timeout curl setopt array  ch   opts   curl exec  ch      do it   status   curl getinfo  ch  CURLINFO HTTP CODE      find HTTP status curl close  ch      close handle echo  status    or return  status        example checking     if   status     302     echo  HEY  redirection       get url status  http   yourpage comm      gt

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As strager suggests  look into using cURL  You may also be interested in setting CURLOPT NOBODY with curl setopt to skip downloading the whole page  you just want the headers

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If you are using PHP s curl bindings  you can check the error code using curl getinfo as such    handle   curl init  url   curl setopt  handle   CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  TRUE       Get the HTML or whatever is linked in  url      response   curl exec  handle       Check for 404  file not found       httpCode   curl getinfo  handle  CURLINFO HTTP CODE   if  httpCode    404           Handle 404 here        curl close  handle       Handle  response here

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As strager suggests  look into using cURL  You may also be interested in setting CURLOPT NOBODY with curl setopt to skip downloading the whole page  you just want the headers

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If you are looking for an easiest solution and the one you can try in one go on php5 do  file get contents  www yoursite com      and check by echoing echo  http response header 0

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If your running php5 you can use    url    http   www example com   print r get headers  url  1      Alternatively with php4 a user has contributed the following       This is a modified version of code from  stuart at sixletterwords dot com   at 14-Sep-2005 04 52  This version tries to emulate get headers   function at PHP4  I think it works fairly well  and is simple  It is not the best emulation available  but it works   Features  - supports  and requires  full URLs  - supports changing of default port in URL  - stops downloading from socket as soon as end-of-headers is detected   Limitations  - only gets the root URL  see line with  GET   HTTP 1 1    - don t support HTTPS  nor the default HTTPS port       if  function exists  get headers          function get headers  url  format 0                 url parse url  url            end     r n r n            fp   fsockopen  url  host     empty  url  port    80  url  port      errno   errstr  30           if   fp                         out     GET   HTTP 1 1 r n                out     Host     url  host     r n                out     Connection  Close r n r n                var                    fwrite  fp   out               while   feof  fp                                  var  fgets  fp  1280                   if strpos  var  end                       break                            fclose  fp                 var preg replace    r n r n           var                var explode   r n   var               if  format                                foreach  var as  i                                        if preg match      a-zA-Z -               i  parts                            v  parts 1    parts 2                                     return  v                            else                 return  var                      Both would have a result similar to   Array        0    gt  HTTP 1 1 200 OK      Date    gt  Sat  29 May 2004 12 28 14 GMT      Server    gt  Apache 1 3 27  Unix    Red-Hat Linux       Last-Modified    gt  Wed  08 Jan 2003 23 11 55 GMT      ETag    gt   3f80f-1b6-3e1cb03b       Accept-Ranges    gt  bytes      Content-Length    gt  438      Connection    gt  close      Content-Type    gt  text html     Therefore you could just check to see that the header response was OK eg    headers   get headers  url  1   if   headers 0      HTTP 1 1 200 OK       valid     if   headers 0      HTTP 1 1 301 Moved Permanently       moved or redirect page     W3C Codes and Definitions

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Here s a way    lt  php   url    http   www google com    if  file get contents  url    echo  Url Exists      else   echo  Url Doesn t Exist         gt    This simple script simply makes a request to the URL for its source code  If the request is completed successfully  it will output  URL Exists    If not  it will output  URL Doesn t Exist

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This will give you true if url does not return 200 OK  function check 404  url        headers get headers  url  1      if   headers 0    HTTP 1 1 200 OK   return true  else return false

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This function return the status code of an URL in PHP 7           param string  url     return int     function getHttpResponseCode string  url   int        headers   get headers  url       return substr  headers 0   9  3       Example   echo getHttpResponseCode  https   www google com      displays  200

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If you are looking for an easiest solution and the one you can try in one go on php5 do  file get contents  www yoursite com      and check by echoing echo  http response header 0

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If you are using PHP s curl bindings  you can check the error code using curl getinfo as such    handle   curl init  url   curl setopt  handle   CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  TRUE       Get the HTML or whatever is linked in  url      response   curl exec  handle       Check for 404  file not found       httpCode   curl getinfo  handle  CURLINFO HTTP CODE   if  httpCode    404           Handle 404 here        curl close  handle       Handle  response here

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Here is a short solution    handle   curl init  uri   curl setopt  handle   CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  TRUE   curl setopt  handle CURLOPT HTTPHEADER array   Accept  application rdf xml     curl setopt  handle  CURLOPT NOBODY  true   curl exec  handle    httpCode   curl getinfo  handle  CURLINFO HTTP CODE   if  httpCode    200   httpCode    303         echo  you might get a reply     curl close  handle     In your case  you can change application rdf xml to whatever you use

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this is just and slice of code  hope works for you               ch    curl init                 curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   http   example com                 curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT USERAGENT   Mozilla 5 0  Windows  U  Windows NT 5 1  en-US  rv 1 8 1 1  Gecko 20061204 Firefox 2 0 0 1                 curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1                curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION  1                curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT TIMEOUT  10                 response          curl exec  ch                errno             curl errno  ch                error             curl error  ch                         response    response                       info    curl getinfo  ch   return  info  http code

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I found this answer here   if   twitter XML raw file get contents  timeline    false          Retrieve HTTP status code     list  version  status code  msg    explode      http response header 0   3           Check the HTTP Status code     switch  status code            case 200                   error status  200  Success                   break          case 401                   error status  401  Login failure   Try logging out and back in   Password are ONLY used when posting                    break          case 400                   error status  400  Invalid request   You may have exceeded your rate limit                    break          case 404                   error status  404  Not found   This shouldn t happen   Please let me know what happened using the feedback link above                    break          case 500                   error status  500  Twitter servers replied with an error  Hopefully they ll be OK soon                    break          case 502                   error status  502  Twitter servers may be down or being upgraded  Hopefully they ll be OK soon                    break          case 503                   error status  503  Twitter service unavailable  Hopefully they ll be OK soon                    break          default                   error status  Undocumented error       status code                  break          Essentially  you use the  file get contents  method to retrieve the URL  which automatically populates the http response header variable with the status code

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You can use this code too  to see the status of any link    lt  php  function get url status  url   timeout   10      ch   curl init       set cURL options  opts   array CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER   gt  true     do not output to browser             CURLOPT URL   gt   url                set URL             CURLOPT NOBODY   gt  true             do a HEAD request only             CURLOPT TIMEOUT   gt   timeout        set timeout curl setopt array  ch   opts   curl exec  ch      do it   status   curl getinfo  ch  CURLINFO HTTP CODE      find HTTP status curl close  ch      close handle echo  status    or return  status        example checking     if   status     302     echo  HEY  redirection       get url status  http   yourpage comm      gt

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If you are using PHP s curl bindings  you can check the error code using curl getinfo as such    handle   curl init  url   curl setopt  handle   CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  TRUE       Get the HTML or whatever is linked in  url      response   curl exec  handle       Check for 404  file not found       httpCode   curl getinfo  handle  CURLINFO HTTP CODE   if  httpCode    404           Handle 404 here        curl close  handle       Handle  response here

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This will give you true if url does not return 200 OK  function check 404  url        headers get headers  url  1      if   headers 0    HTTP 1 1 200 OK   return true  else return false

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If your running php5 you can use    url    http   www example com   print r get headers  url  1      Alternatively with php4 a user has contributed the following       This is a modified version of code from  stuart at sixletterwords dot com   at 14-Sep-2005 04 52  This version tries to emulate get headers   function at PHP4  I think it works fairly well  and is simple  It is not the best emulation available  but it works   Features  - supports  and requires  full URLs  - supports changing of default port in URL  - stops downloading from socket as soon as end-of-headers is detected   Limitations  - only gets the root URL  see line with  GET   HTTP 1 1    - don t support HTTPS  nor the default HTTPS port       if  function exists  get headers          function get headers  url  format 0                 url parse url  url            end     r n r n            fp   fsockopen  url  host     empty  url  port    80  url  port      errno   errstr  30           if   fp                         out     GET   HTTP 1 1 r n                out     Host     url  host     r n                out     Connection  Close r n r n                var                    fwrite  fp   out               while   feof  fp                                  var  fgets  fp  1280                   if strpos  var  end                       break                            fclose  fp                 var preg replace    r n r n           var                var explode   r n   var               if  format                                foreach  var as  i                                        if preg match      a-zA-Z -               i  parts                            v  parts 1    parts 2                                     return  v                            else                 return  var                      Both would have a result similar to   Array        0    gt  HTTP 1 1 200 OK      Date    gt  Sat  29 May 2004 12 28 14 GMT      Server    gt  Apache 1 3 27  Unix    Red-Hat Linux       Last-Modified    gt  Wed  08 Jan 2003 23 11 55 GMT      ETag    gt   3f80f-1b6-3e1cb03b       Accept-Ranges    gt  bytes      Content-Length    gt  438      Connection    gt  close      Content-Type    gt  text html     Therefore you could just check to see that the header response was OK eg    headers   get headers  url  1   if   headers 0      HTTP 1 1 200 OK       valid     if   headers 0      HTTP 1 1 301 Moved Permanently       moved or redirect page     W3C Codes and Definitions

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this is just and slice of code  hope works for you               ch    curl init                 curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT URL   http   example com                 curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT USERAGENT   Mozilla 5 0  Windows  U  Windows NT 5 1  en-US  rv 1 8 1 1  Gecko 20061204 Firefox 2 0 0 1                 curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  1                curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION  1                curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT TIMEOUT  10                 response          curl exec  ch                errno             curl errno  ch                error             curl error  ch                         response    response                       info    curl getinfo  ch   return  info  http code

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addendum tested those 3 methods considering performance   The result  at least in my testing environment    Curl wins  This test is done under the consideration that only the headers  noBody  is needed  Test yourself    url    http   de wikipedia org wiki Pinocchio     start time   microtime TRUE    headers   get headers  url   echo  headers 0    lt br gt     end time   microtime TRUE   echo  end time -  start time   lt br gt       start time   microtime TRUE    response   file get contents  url   echo  http response header 0    lt br gt     end time   microtime TRUE   echo  end time -  start time   lt br gt      start time   microtime TRUE    handle   curl init  url   curl setopt  handle   CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  TRUE   curl setopt  handle  CURLOPT NOBODY  1      and  only  get the header     Get the HTML or whatever is linked in  url      response   curl exec  handle      Check for 404  file not found       httpCode   curl getinfo  handle  CURLINFO HTTP CODE      if  httpCode    404              Handle 404 here          echo  httpCode   lt br gt    curl close  handle    end time   microtime TRUE   echo  end time -  start time   lt br gt

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Here is a short solution    handle   curl init  uri   curl setopt  handle   CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER  TRUE   curl setopt  handle CURLOPT HTTPHEADER array   Accept  application rdf xml     curl setopt  handle  CURLOPT NOBODY  true   curl exec  handle    httpCode   curl getinfo  handle  CURLINFO HTTP CODE   if  httpCode    200   httpCode    303         echo  you might get a reply     curl close  handle     In your case  you can change application rdf xml to whatever you use

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lt  php   url   www something com    ch   curl init  url   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HEADER  true      curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT NOBODY  true       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT USERAGENT   Mozilla 5 0  Windows  U  Windows NT 6 0  en-US  rv 1 9 0 3  Gecko 2008092417 Firefox 3 0 4    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER 1   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT TIMEOUT 10   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT ENCODING   gzip    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION  1    output   curl exec  ch    httpcode   curl getinfo  ch  CURLINFO HTTP CODE   curl close  ch     echo  httpcode    gt

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lt  php   url   www something com    ch   curl init  url   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT HEADER  true      curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT NOBODY  true       curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT USERAGENT   Mozilla 5 0  Windows  U  Windows NT 6 0  en-US  rv 1 9 0 3  Gecko 2008092417 Firefox 3 0 4    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT RETURNTRANSFER 1   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT TIMEOUT 10   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT ENCODING   gzip    curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT FOLLOWLOCATION  1    output   curl exec  ch    httpcode   curl getinfo  ch  CURLINFO HTTP CODE   curl close  ch     echo  httpcode    gt

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