# curl_getinfo

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4, PHP 5)

curl_getinfo — Get information regarding a specific transfer

### Description

mixed curl_getinfo ( resource `$ch` [, int `$opt` ] )

Gets information about the last transfer,

### Parameters

`ch`

  A cURL handle returned by curl_init().

`opt`

  This may be one of the following constants:

  - `CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL` - Last effective URL
  - `CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE` - Last received HTTP code
  - `CURLINFO_FILETIME` - Remote time of the retrieved document, if -1 is returned the time of the document is unknown
  - `CURLINFO_TOTAL_TIME` - Total transaction time in seconds for last transfer
  - `CURLINFO_NAMELOOKUP_TIME` - Time in seconds until name resolving was complete
  - `CURLINFO_CONNECT_TIME` - Time in seconds it took to establish the connection
  - `CURLINFO_PRETRANSFER_TIME` - Time in seconds from start until just before file transfer begins
  - `CURLINFO_STARTTRANSFER_TIME` - Time in seconds until the first byte is about to be transferred
  - `CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME` - Time in seconds of all redirection steps before final transaction was started
  - `CURLINFO_SIZE_UPLOAD` - Total number of bytes uploaded
  - `CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD` - Total number of bytes downloaded
  - `CURLINFO_SPEED_DOWNLOAD` - Average download speed
  - `CURLINFO_SPEED_UPLOAD` - Average upload speed
  - `CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE` - Total size of all headers received
  - `CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT` - The request string sent. Available since PHP 5.1.3
  - `CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE` - Total size of issued requests, currently only for HTTP requests
  - `CURLINFO_SSL_VERIFYRESULT` - Result of SSL certification verification requested by setting CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER
  - `CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD` - content-length of download, read from Content-Length: field
  - `CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_UPLOAD` - Specified size of upload
  - `CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE` - Content-type of downloaded object, NULL indicates server did not send valid Content-Type: header

### Return Values

If `opt` is given, returns its value as a string. Otherwise, returns an associative array with the following elements (which correspond to `opt` ):

- "url"
- "content_type"
- "http_code"
- "header_size"
- "request_size"
- "filetime"
- "ssl_verify_result"
- "redirect_count"
- "total_time"
- "namelookup_time"
- "connect_time"
- "pretransfer_time"
- "size_upload"
- "size_download"
- "speed_download"
- "speed_upload"
- "download_content_length"
- "upload_content_length"
- "starttransfer_time"
- "redirect_time"