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PHP HTTP context options
Introduction
Given below is the list of context options for http:// and https:// transports
| method | HTTP method supported by the remote server. Defaults to GET. |
| header | Additional headers to be sent during request. |
| user_agent | Value to send with User-Agent: header. By default the user_agent php.ini setting is used. |
| content | Additional data to be sent after the headers. Typically used with POST or PUT requests. |
| proxy | URI specifying address of proxy server. |
| request_fulluri boolean | When set to TRUE, the entire URI will be used when constructing the request. Defaults to FALSE. |
| follow_location | Follow Location header redirects. Set to 0 to disable.Defaults to 1. |
| max_redirects | The max number of redirects to follow. |
| protocol_version | HTTP protocol version. Defaults to 1.0. |
| timeout | Read timeout in seconds, specified by a float (e.g. 10.5). |
| ignore_errors | Fetch the content even on failure status codes. Defaults to FALSE. |
Following example fetches headers and contents from http:// URL
Example
<?php
$url = "http://localhost/testscript.php";
$opts = array('http' =>
array(
'method' => 'GET',
'max_redirects' => '0',
'ignore_errors' => '1'
);
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$stream = fopen($url, 'r', false, $context);
var_dump(stream_get_meta_data($stream));
?>Output
This displays header information and metadata as follows −
array(10) {
["timed_out"]=>
bool(false)
["blocked"]=>
bool(true)
["eof"]=>
bool(false)
["wrapper_data"]=>
array(7) {
[0]=>
string(15) "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
[1]=>
string(35) "Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 07:04:47 GMT"
[2]=>
string(55) "Server: Apache/2.4.41 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.0.2s PHP/7.1.32"
[3]=>
string(24) "X-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.32"
[4]=>
string(17) "Content-Length: 0"
[5]=>
string(17) "Connection: close"
[6]=>
string(38) "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8"
}
["wrapper_type"]=>
string(4) "http"
["stream_type"]=>
string(14) "tcp_socket/ssl"
["mode"]=>
string(1) "r"
["unread_bytes"]=>
int(0)
["seekable"]=>
bool(false)
["uri"]=>
string(31) "http://localhost/testscript.php"
}
Updated on: 21-Sep-2020
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