PHP Check whether URL exists with CURL

This script helps us to check whether a URL exist or not by checking the header details.Here we are also displaying the output of the URL header details for further reference.

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$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost/lic/upload.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $data;   

Sample output

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:25:55 GMT Server: Apache X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.1 Content-Type: text/html 

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