Thanks Dipen, It works perfectly well. Thanks for making me aware of the HEAD method.
The headers does not contain "content-length" when invoked on a .php page, is this in accordance with the protocol? -- Regards, Nitin Kumar Gupta http://publicmind.in/blog/ On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Dipen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >> > >
