Curl PHP http_code says 404 but browser says it's 200

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I found out why this was happening, check my answer This is the only domain that this happens on, I'm running curl_multi on a bunch of URLs, this one comes back with 404 http_code http://www.breakingnews.com But when I visit it in the browser it's 200OK (takes a while to load) and doesn't even look like a redirect. Anyone know what's up? Is this a common problem here's a var_dump: ``` ["info"]=> array(22) { ["url"]=> string(27) "http://www.breakingnews.com" ["content_type"]=> string(24) "text/html; charset=utf-8" ["http_code"]=> int(404) ["header_size"]=> int(337) ["request_size"]=> int(128) ["filetime"]=> int(-1) ["ssl_verify_result"]=> int(0) ["redirect_count"]=> int(0) ["total_time"]=> float(1.152229) ["namelookup_time"]=> float(0.001261) ["connect_time"]=> float(0.020121) ["pretransfer_time"]=> float(0.020179) ["size_upload"]=> float(0) ["size_download"]=> float(9755) ["speed_download"]=> float(8466) ["speed_upload"]=> float(0) ["download_content_length"]=> float(-1) ["upload_cont…

Accepted Answer

I found the answer in a comment here http://w-shadow.com/blog/2007/08/02/how-to-check-if-page-exists-with-curl/comment-page-1/#comment-12186 By setting CURLOPT_NOBODY to true, CURL will use HEAD for the request, which some servers don’t like (for example, forbes) and will return “Emply reply from server”. To fix you need to also set CURLOPT_HTTPGET to reset back to GET request.

```
/* don’t download the page, just the header (much faster in this case) */
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true); //this is needed to fix the issue
```

Curl PHP http_code says 404 but browser says it's 200

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