Class to get http headers using diffrent methods available in PHP

• Takes URL as argument
• Contains 3 diffrent methods to get http headers #1. PHP CURL, #2. Linux shell via PHP shell_exec, #3. PHP function get_headers()
• all get header methods return an array of all headers
• first element of array contains int http response code

$h = new GetHeaders('mac'); //sets CURL's user-agent to Mac

$h = new GetHeaders(); //Keeps default user-agent

$headers = $h->get_curl_headers('https://www.iplocality.com/'); //get headers via CURL

$headers = $h->get_shell_headers('https://preproxy.com/'); //get headers via Linux Shell

$headers = $h->get_headers('http://www.google.com/'); //get headers via PHP function get_headers

Class contains benchmark method with some URLs to test all get header methods. Use your own array of URLs to benchmark performance.

/home/vagrant/Code/getHeaders.class.php:251:
array (size=10)
  'REQUEST WEBSITES           ' => string 'PHP CURL              LINUX SHELL           PHP GET HEADERS     ' (length=64)
  'https://www.google.com/    ' => string '1.8369688987732       1.4304299354553       1.1995270252228     ' (length=64)
  'https://www.bing.com/      ' => string '0.96593499183655      0.98185205459595      0.92472505569458    ' (length=64)
  'http://www.yahoo.com/      ' => string '0.59260082244873      0.35894203186035      2.4568209648132     ' (length=64)
  'http://www.preproxy.com/   ' => string '1.1098358631134       0.35897588729858      1.6951670646667     ' (length=64)
  'http://www.iplocality.com/ ' => string '0.71652007102966      0.72328615188599      0.82622981071472    ' (length=64)
  'http://www.facebook.com/   ' => string '0.73158597946167      0.81967496871948      2.4969518184662     ' (length=64)
  'http://www.youtube.com/    ' => string '0.58801817893982      1.0290570259094       1.3727321624756     ' (length=64)
  'http://www.twitter.com/    ' => string '0.66506004333496      0.47173810005188      3.1517231464386     ' (length=64)
  'AVERAGE SPEED              ' => string '0.90081560611725      0.77174451947212      1.7654846310616     ' (length=64)

PHP function get_headers is slowest, while linux shell and CURL are much faster. However when requesting secure https header PHP functions tend to perform better. Try and see if you get same results