Retrieves header/meta data from streams/file pointers

# stream_get_meta_data

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

stream_get_meta_data — Retrieves header/meta data from streams/file pointers

### Description

stream_get_meta_data(resource `$stream`): array

Returns information about an existing `stream`.

### Parameters

`stream`

  The stream can be any stream created by fopen(), fsockopen() pfsockopen() and stream_socket_client().

### Return Values

The result array contains the following items:

- `timed_out` (bool) - `true` if the stream timed out while waiting for data on the last call to fread() or fgets().

- `blocked` (bool) - `true` if the stream is in blocking IO mode. See stream_set_blocking().

- `eof` (bool) - `true` if the stream has reached end-of-file. Note that for socket streams this member can be `true` even when `unread_bytes` is non-zero. To determine if there is more data to be read, use feof() instead of reading this item.

- `unread_bytes` (int) - the number of bytes currently contained in the PHP's own internal buffer.

  > Note: You shouldn't use this value in a script.

- `stream_type` (string) - a label describing the underlying implementation of the stream.

- `wrapper_type` (string) - a label describing the protocol wrapper implementation layered over the stream. See Supported Protocols and Wrappers for more information about wrappers.

- `wrapper_data` (mixed) - wrapper specific data attached to this stream. See Supported Protocols and Wrappers for more information about wrappers and their wrapper data.

- `mode` (string) - the type of access required for this stream (see Table 1 of the fopen() reference)

- `seekable` (bool) - whether the current stream can be seeked.

- `uri` (string) - the URI/filename associated with this stream.

- `crypto` (array) - the TLS connection metadata for this stream. (Note: Only provided when the resource's stream uses TLS.)

### Examples

Example #1 stream_get_meta_data() example using fopen() with http

`<?php
$url = 'http://www.example.com/';
if (!$fp = fopen($url, 'r')) {
trigger_error("Unable to open URL ($url)", E_USER_ERROR);
}
$meta = stream_get_meta_data($fp);
var_dump($meta);
fclose($fp);
?>`

The above example will output something similar to:

    array(10) {
      'timed_out' =>
      bool(false)
      'blocked' =>
      bool(true)
      'eof' =>
      bool(false)
      'wrapper_data' =>
      array(13) {
        [0] =>
        string(15) "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
        [1] =>
        string(11) "Age: 244629"
        [2] =>
        string(29) "Cache-Control: max-age=604800"
        [3] =>
        string(38) "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8"
        [4] =>
        string(35) "Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 18:17:57 GMT"
        [5] =>
        string(24) "Etag: "3147526947+ident""
        [6] =>
        string(38) "Expires: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 18:17:57 GMT"
        [7] =>
        string(44) "Last-Modified: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 07:18:26 GMT"
        [8] =>
        string(22) "Server: ECS (chb/0286)"
        [9] =>
        string(21) "Vary: Accept-Encoding"
        [10] =>
        string(12) "X-Cache: HIT"
        [11] =>
        string(20) "Content-Length: 1256"
        [12] =>
        string(17) "Connection: close"
      }
      'wrapper_type' =>
      string(4) "http"
      'stream_type' =>
      string(14) "tcp_socket/ssl"
      'mode' =>
      string(1) "r"
      'unread_bytes' =>
      int(1256)
      'seekable' =>
      bool(false)
      'uri' =>
      string(23) "http://www.example.com/"
    }

Example #2 stream_get_meta_data() example using stream_socket_client() with https

`<?php
$streamContext = stream_context_create(
[
'ssl' => [
'capture_peer_cert' => true,
'capture_peer_cert_chain' => true,
'disable_compression' => true,
],
]
);
$client = stream_socket_client(
'ssl://www.example.com:443',
$errorNumber,
$errorDescription,
40,
STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT,
$streamContext
);
$meta = stream_get_meta_data($client);
var_dump($meta);
?>`

The above example will output something similar to:

    array(8) {
      'crypto' =>
      array(4) {
        'protocol' =>
        string(7) "TLSv1.3"
        'cipher_name' =>
        string(22) "TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384"
        'cipher_bits' =>
        int(256)
        'cipher_version' =>
        string(7) "TLSv1.3"
      }
      'timed_out' =>
      bool(false)
      'blocked' =>
      bool(true)
      'eof' =>
      bool(false)
      'stream_type' =>
      string(14) "tcp_socket/ssl"
      'mode' =>
      string(2) "r+"
      'unread_bytes' =>
      int(0)
      'seekable' =>
      bool(false)
    }

### Notes

> Note:

> This function does NOT work on sockets created by the Socket extension.

### See Also

- get_headers() - Fetches all the headers sent by the server in response to an HTTP request
- $http_response_header

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