How to get the Status Code from HTTP Response Headers in PHP
We’ll see how to get the Status Code of any HTTP RESPONSE Headers sent by the server upon a HTTP REQUEST in PHP. For example, opening a webpage in a browser will send a HTTP request to the server and which in turn will be returned by a response. At times, we want to get the status code alone from the headers sent by the server for processing.
Get the HTTP Response Status Code
First use the PHP get_headers() function to fetch the array of all the headers sent by the server and then strip the status code from it.
$statusCode = get_response_code('http://example.com'); echo $statusCode; ?> I hope you find this php tutorial useful.
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$http_response_header
The $http_response_header array is similar to the get_headers() function. When using the HTTP wrapper, $http_response_header will be populated with the HTTP response headers. $http_response_header will be created in the local scope.
Examples
Example #1 $http_response_header example
function get_contents () file_get_contents ( «http://example.com» );
var_dump ( $http_response_header );
>
get_contents ();
var_dump ( $http_response_header );
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
array(9) < [0]=>string(15) "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" [1]=> string(35) "Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:30:38 GMT" [2]=> string(29) "Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)" [3]=> string(44) "Last-Modified: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:24:10 GMT" [4]=> string(27) "ETag: "280100-1b6-80bfd280"" [5]=> string(20) "Accept-Ranges: bytes" [6]=> string(19) "Content-Length: 438" [7]=> string(17) "Connection: close" [8]=> string(38) "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8" > NULL
User Contributed Notes 5 notes
Note that the HTTP wrapper has a hard limit of 1024 characters for the header lines.
Any HTTP header received that is longer than this will be ignored and won’t appear in $http_response_header.
The cURL extension doesn’t have this limit.
http_fopen_wrapper.c: #define HTTP_HEADER_BLOCK_SIZE 1024
parser function to get formatted headers (with response code)
function parseHeaders ( $headers )
$head = array();
foreach( $headers as $k => $v )
$t = explode ( ‘:’ , $v , 2 );
if( isset( $t [ 1 ] ) )
$head [ trim ( $t [ 0 ]) ] = trim ( $t [ 1 ] );
else
$head [] = $v ;
if( preg_match ( «#HTTP/[0-9\.]+\s+(7+)#» , $v , $out ) )
$head [ ‘reponse_code’ ] = intval ( $out [ 1 ]);
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>
return $head ;
>
print_r ( parseHeaders ( $http_response_header ));
/*
Array
(
[0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[reponse_code] => 200
[Date] => Fri, 01 May 2015 12:56:09 GMT
[Server] => Apache
[X-Powered-By] => PHP/5.3.3-7+squeeze18
[Set-Cookie] => PHPSESSID=ng25jekmlipl1smfscq7copdl3; path=/
[Expires] => Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
[Cache-Control] => no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
[Pragma] => no-cache
[Vary] => Accept-Encoding
[Content-Length] => 872
[Connection] => close
[Content-Type] => text/html
)
*/
It seems that, if the server returns an HTTP/1.1 100 Continue, the variable $http_response_header is unset. This corner case may be difficult to be detected.
For this and other reasons I recommend PHP cURL, instead of file_get_contents().
If an HTTP Redirect is encountered, the headers will contain the response line and headers for all requests encountered. Consider this example:
array(23) [0]=>
string(18) «HTTP/1.1 302 FOUND»
[1]=>
string(17) «Connection: close»
[2]=>
string(22) «Server: meinheld/0.6.1»
[3]=>
string(35) «Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 11:21:21 GMT»
[4]=>
string(38) «Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8»
[5]=>
string(17) «Content-Length: 0»
[6]=>
string(30) «Location: https://httpbin.org/»
[7]=>
string(30) «Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *»
[8]=>
string(38) «Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true»
[9]=>
string(19) «X-Powered-By: Flask»
[10]=>
string(34) «X-Processed-Time: 0.00107908248901»
[11]=>
string(14) «Via: 1.1 vegur»
[12]=>
string(15) «HTTP/1.1 200 OK»
[13]=>
string(17) «Connection: close»
[14]=>
string(22) «Server: meinheld/0.6.1»
[15]=>
string(35) «Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 11:21:21 GMT»
[16]=>
string(38) «Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8»
[17]=>
string(21) «Content-Length: 13011»
[18]=>
string(30) «Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *»
[19]=>
string(38) «Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true»
[20]=>
string(19) «X-Powered-By: Flask»
[21]=>
string(34) «X-Processed-Time: 0.00848388671875»
[22]=>
string(14) «Via: 1.1 vegur»
>
Bear in mind this special variable is somehow protected and not populated in some situation when the peer server close the connection early on (ssl reset)
=> Undefined variable: http_response_header
Will return a cryptic error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function array() on line 2
—
Should you want to cope with this situation:
$hdrs = array(‘HTTP/1.1 400 Bad request’);
!empty($htp_response_header) && $hdrs = $http_response_headers;
Now use $hdrs in place of $http_response_header