How to request head of url ??

[hos2]

I want to check all my links on availability in my database from time to time. Is it possible to request the header information of any given url ?? and store that in a variable ?

 

[AnakinPt]

function urlExists($url)
{
$url = ereg_replace("

http://",

"", $url);
list($domain, $file) = explode("/", $url, 2);
$fid=fsockopen($domain,80);
fputs($fid,"HEAD /$file HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: $domain\r\n\r\n"
$gets = fgets($fid, 1024);
fclose($fid);
if (ereg("HTTP/1.1 200 OK", $gets)) return TRUE;
else return FALSE;
}

i just found out this code in php.net.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-exists.php

i hope it will help you out Anikin
Hugo Alexandre Dias
Web-Programmer
anikin_jedi@hotmail.com

 

[hos2]

hmm on php.net it mentioned also that it doesn't work on remote files. and I have only remote urls in my database. further on I want to read the header information of the requested url and not only true or false

I will check it out anyway for future use. thanks

 

[AnakinPt]

look, you're not using the file_exists function in the function i gave you.

Anikin
Hugo Alexandre Dias
Web-Programmer
anikin_jedi@hotmail.com

 

[hos2]

Ah I see, it seems to work sorry I also search on php.net first but that didn't work. I didn't notice the chancge in function