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PHP : Function Reference : CURL, Client URL Library Functions : curl_getinfo

curl_getinfo

Get information regarding a specific transfer (PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)
mixed curl_getinfo ( resource ch [, int opt] )

Gets information about the last transfer,

Parameters

ch

A cURL handle returned by curl_init().

opt

This may be one of the following constants:

  • CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL - Last effective URL
  • CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE - Last received HTTP code
  • CURLINFO_FILETIME - Remote time of the retrieved document, if -1 is returned the time of the document is unknown
  • CURLINFO_TOTAL_TIME - Total transaction time in seconds for last transfer
  • CURLINFO_NAMELOOKUP_TIME - Time in seconds until name resolving was complete
  • CURLINFO_CONNECT_TIME - Time in seconds it took to establish the connection
  • CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME - Time in seconds from start until just before file transfer begins
  • CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME - Time in seconds until the first byte is about to be transferred
  • CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME - Time in seconds of all redirection steps before final transaction was started
  • CURLINFO_SIZE_UPLOAD - Total number of bytes uploaded
  • CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD - Total number of bytes downloaded
  • CURLINFO_SPEED_DOWNLOAD - Average download speed
  • CURLINFO_SPEED_UPLOAD - Average upload speed
  • CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE - Total size of all headers received
  • CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT - The request string sent. Available since PHP 5.1.3
  • CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE - Total size of issued requests, currently only for HTTP requests
  • CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT - Result of SSL certification verification requested by setting CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER
  • CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD - content-length of download, read from Content-Length: field
  • CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD - Specified size of upload
  • CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE - Content-type of downloaded object, NULL indicates server did not send valid Content-Type: header

Return Values

If opt is given, returns its value as a string. Otherwise, returns an associative array with the following elements (which correspond to opt):

  • "url"
  • "content_type"
  • "http_code"
  • "header_size"
  • "request_size"
  • "filetime"
  • "ssl_verify_result"
  • "redirect_count"
  • "total_time"
  • "namelookup_time"
  • "connect_time"
  • "pretransfer_time"
  • "size_upload"
  • "size_download"
  • "speed_download"
  • "speed_upload"
  • "download_content_length"
  • "upload_content_length"
  • "starttransfer_time"
  • "redirect_time"

Code Examples / Notes » curl_getinfo

12-sep-2002 10:02

You can get some documentation about what these values mean in the libcurl C API documentation here:
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_getinfo.html


ssttoo

Here are the response codes ready for pasting in an ini-style file. Can be used to provide more descriptive message, corresponding to 'http_code' index of the arrray returned by curl_getinfo().
These are taken from the W3 consortium HTTP/1.1: Status Code Definitions, found at
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
[Informational 1xx]
100="Continue"
101="Switching Protocols"
[Successful 2xx]
200="OK"
201="Created"
202="Accepted"
203="Non-Authoritative Information"
204="No Content"
205="Reset Content"
206="Partial Content"
[Redirection 3xx]
300="Multiple Choices"
301="Moved Permanently"
302="Found"
303="See Other"
304="Not Modified"
305="Use Proxy"
306="(Unused)"
307="Temporary Redirect"
[Client Error 4xx]
400="Bad Request"
401="Unauthorized"
402="Payment Required"
403="Forbidden"
404="Not Found"
405="Method Not Allowed"
406="Not Acceptable"
407="Proxy Authentication Required"
408="Request Timeout"
409="Conflict"
410="Gone"
411="Length Required"
412="Precondition Failed"
413="Request Entity Too Large"
414="Request-URI Too Long"
415="Unsupported Media Type"
416="Requested Range Not Satisfiable"
417="Expectation Failed"
[Server Error 5xx]
500="Internal Server Error"
501="Not Implemented"
502="Bad Gateway"
503="Service Unavailable"
504="Gateway Timeout"
505="HTTP Version Not Supported"
And an example usage:
<?php
$ch = curl_init(); // create cURL handle (ch)
if (!$ch) {
   die("Couldn't initialize a cURL handle");
}
// set some cURL options
$ret = curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,            "http://mail.yahoo.com");
$ret = curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,         1);
$ret = curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$ret = curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0);
$ret = curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,        30);
// execute
$ret = curl_exec($ch);
if (empty($ret)) {
   // some kind of an error happened
   die(curl_error($ch));
   curl_close($ch); // close cURL handler
} else {
   $info = curl_getinfo($ch);
   curl_close($ch); // close cURL handler
   if (empty($info['http_code'])) {
           die("No HTTP code was returned");
   } else {
       // load the HTTP codes
       $http_codes = parse_ini_file("path/to/the/ini/file/I/pasted/above");
       
       // echo results
       echo "The server responded: <br />";
       echo $info['http_code'] . " " . $http_codes[$info['http_code']];
   }
}
?>


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