PHP - Determing existence of remote file?

You have to send HEAD request, in this way only HTTP headers will be returned, and not the whole file.

You have to send HEAD request, in this way only HTTP headers will be returned, and not the whole file curl_setopt(CURLOPT_NOBODY, true).

When you just want to check the existance of the file, you can use curl to make a HEAD Request instead of a GET. This way the webserver will only answer with the header information (including the 200/404/... status code) and not the entire file.

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