+function get_url_info($url)
+{
+  $ch = curl_init($url);
+  curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
+      CURLOPT_HEADER => TRUE,
+      CURLOPT_NOBODY => TRUE,
+      CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => TRUE,  // follow http redirects to get the real URL
+      CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
+      CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => FALSE,
+      CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => FALSE,
+      CURLOPT_USERAGENT => USER_AGENT,
+  ));
+  curl_exec($ch);
+  $url_info = curl_getinfo($ch);;
+  curl_close($ch);
+
+  return $url_info;
+}