I'm not sure if this function in CURL just strips the response body out but still load it fully. Is that true? I don't want to waste bandwidth, I just want the headers.
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will send a HEAD
request to web server. The server should respond with just the HTTP headers and no body content.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html
The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message-body in the response.