how to stop curl php from sending accept header

Question

By default curl sends Accept: */* header for all requests. How do I stop sending of the default header?

 Accept: */* 

Answer 1

Pass in "Accept:" (ie a header with no contents to the right of the colon) with CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER. Like:

$headers  =  array( "Accept:" );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

The equivalent using the curl command line tool is:

curl -H 'Accept:' http://example.com/

This will make curl remove the header, not just send a header with a blank value. You can also send a header with a blank value if you want, but then you need to use a semicolon instead of colon!