PHP to answer HEAD requests

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Is it possible to use PHP to answer HEAD http requests? Is it as =20
simple as doing something like:

header('blah')
exit;

I'd expect PHP to produce a full page rather than just a header though.

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Peiriannydd Meddalwedd Senior Software Engineer
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Re: PHP to answer HEAD requests

2009/12/18 Dan Field :
> Is it possible to use PHP to answer HEAD http requests? Is it as simple a=
s
> doing something like:
>
> header('blah')
> exit;
>
> I'd expect PHP to produce a full page rather than just a header though.
>
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> Dan Field             =C2=
=A0     Ffôn/Tel. +44 1970 632 582
> Peiriannydd Meddalwedd               =
           Senior Software Engineer
> Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru             =
      National Library of Wales
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>

$_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] will/should contain the request type.
Documented as ...

"Which request method was used to access the page; i.e. 'GET', 'HEAD',
'POST', 'PUT'.
Note: PHP script is terminated after sending headers (it means after
producing any output without output buffering) if the request method
was HEAD."

See http://docs.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php

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