Hi Negin, I haven't tried what you're after, but saw this on SO: curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1); // and *only* get the header (http://stackoverflow.com/a/21287969) Does this help? Patty On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Negin Nickparsa <nickparsa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Curl is slow detecting 404 pages. > > is there any other solution rather than using Curl and http code to detect > 404 pages? >