Can PHP CURL Retrieve Response Headers AND Body In A Single Request?
Answer : One solution to this was posted in the PHP documentation comments: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-exec.php#80442 Code example: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); // ... $response = curl_exec($ch); // Then, after your curl_exec call: $header_size = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE); $header = substr($response, 0, $header_size); $body = substr($response, $header_size); Warning: As noted in the comments below, this may not be reliable when used with proxy servers or when handling certain types of redirects. @Geoffrey's answer may handle these more reliably. Many of the other solutions offered this thread are not doing this correctly. Splitting on \r\n\r\n is not reliable when CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION is on or when the server responds with a 100 code. Not all servers are standards compliant and transmit just a \n for new lines. Detecting the size of the headers via CURLINFO_HEA...