function url_exists($url) {
    $headers = @get_headers($url);
    return (strpos($headers[0],'200')===false)? false:true;
}

function urlIsOk($url)
{
    $headers = @get_headers($url);
    $httpStatus = intval(substr($headers[0], 9, 3));
    if ($httpStatus<400)
    {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

function URLIsValid($URL)
{
    $exists = true;
    $file_headers = @get_headers($URL);
    $InvalidHeaders = array('404', '403', '500');
    foreach($InvalidHeaders as $HeaderVal)
    {
            if(strstr($file_headers[0], $HeaderVal))
            {
                    $exists = false;
                    break;
            }
    }
    return $exists;
}

get_headers()返回一个数组，其中包含服务器响应HTTP请求时发送的报头。

$image_path = 'https://your-domain.com/assets/img/image.jpg';

$file_headers = @get_headers($image_path);
//Prints the response out in an array
//print_r($file_headers); 

if($file_headers[0] == 'HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found'){
   echo 'Failed because path does not exist.</br>';
}else{
   echo 'It works. Your good to go!</br>';
}

简单的方法是卷曲(和更快)

<?php
$mylinks="http://site.com/page.html";
$handlerr = curl_init($mylinks);
curl_setopt($handlerr,  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$resp = curl_exec($handlerr);
$ht = curl_getinfo($handlerr, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);


if ($ht == '404')
     { echo 'OK';}
else { echo 'NO';}

?>

在检查报头是否有404错误时，需要考虑的一件事是站点不会立即生成404错误。

很多网站会检查PHP/ASP(等等)源代码中是否存在某个页面，然后将您转到404页面。在这些情况下，头基本上是由生成的404头扩展的。在这种情况下，404错误不会出现在头文件的第一行，而是第10行。

$array = get_headers($url);
$string = $array[0];
print_r($string) // would generate:

Array ( 
[0] => HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently 
[1] => Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 16:12:29 GMT 
[2] => Server: Apache/2.4.34 (FreeBSD) LibreSSL/2.7.4 PHP/7.0.31 
[3] => X-Powered-By: PHP/7.0.31 
[4] => Set-Cookie: landing=%2Freed-diffuser-fig-pudding-50; path=/; HttpOnly 
[5] => Location: /reed-diffuser-fig-pudding-50/ 
[6] => Content-Length: 0 
[7] => Connection: close 
[8] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 
[9] => HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found 
[10] => Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 16:12:29 GMT 
[11] => Server: Apache/2.4.34 (FreeBSD) LibreSSL/2.7.4 PHP/7.0.31 
[12] => X-Powered-By: PHP/7.0.31 
[13] => Set-Cookie: landing=%2Freed-diffuser-fig-pudding-50%2F; path=/; HttpOnly 
[14] => Connection: close 
[15] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 
)