[solved] PHP CURL hickup with HEAD request

found the solution in the mailing list on a related problem : if ( strtolower($theMethod) === 'head') // i.c.o. a HEAD request, specify no body is required. // This will enfore the method to HEAD anyway - see PHP documentation curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, TRUE ) ; else if ( strlen($theBody) ) // if a body was specified, set it curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $theBody) ; On 18/10/15 11:45, B. Aerts wrote:

Dear list, I recently ran into a small hickup with the PHP CURL library. I use the library to perform a HTTP HEAD request, supposed to retrieve only the headers for a request. One of these headers is the "content-length" header - which returns the length of the file to be fetched. Since it is a HEAD request, there is no response body returned - making the actual content-length 0 bytes. This yields a CURL error code 18, "partial file returned", while the call performs exactly as intended. Is there a switch I forgot to suppress this message ? The code I use is :

       $theMethod = "HEAD" ;
       $theUrl = "http://localhost/index.html" ;
       $theUsr = "user" ;
       $thePwd = "xxxxxxxx" ;

       $ch = curl_init() ;

       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $theUrl) ;
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "PHP cURL Client" ) ;

       if (strlen($theUsr) || strlen($thePwd) )
       {
          curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY ) ;
          curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $theUsr . ":" . $thePwd ) ;
       }

       // no check on method required; will be done by server
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $theMethod);

       // if headers were supplied, format them so CURL understands them
       if (is_array($extraHeaders) && count($extraHeaders) )
       {
          foreach ($extraHeaders AS $headerName => $headerValue)
             $curlHeaders[] = "$headerName: $headerValue";

          curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $curlHeaders ) ;
       }

       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15 ) ;
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true ) ;
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true ) ;
       // keep return headers
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true );
       // keeps response as string
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true ) ;
       // follow redirects
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true ) ;
       // max. 5 redirects
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 5) ;

       if ( strlen($theBody) )
          curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $theBody) ;

       // execute HTTP request
       $httpResponse = curl_exec($ch);

       // Check if any error occurred
       $errno = curl_errno($ch) ;

Thanks in advance, Bert