Is Curl NOBODY actually fetch the body?

Question

Hi, I'm not sure if this function in CURL just strips the response body out but still load it fully. Is that true? i don't want to waste bandwidth, i just want the headers.

Thanks

Answer 1

It will only load the headers, it won't load the body of the requested document.

Answer 2

CURLOPT_NOBODY will send a HEAD request to web server. The server should respond with just the HTTP headers and no body content.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html

The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message-body in the response.