I havent tried it doing it with drupal but try passing method = HEAD. HEAD /index.html
would fetch only headers of that resource, where as GET for instance would also return the content. Cheers dipen On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:52 PM, nitin gupta <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently using curl (CURLOPT_NOBODY) to exclude the body and to just > get the headers returned by the sever for a http request. I am specifically > interested in the return status code and the content length. Can I do it > using drupal_http_request? What will be the suitable value for the $headers, > so that I don't need to download the whole page? > > http://api.drupal.org/api/function/drupal_http_request/6 > > -- > Regards, > Nitin Kumar Gupta > http://publicmind.in/blog/ >
