use HEAD request On 4/13/05, Ryan Hemelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I don't know if this is the place to do it, but anyway. I have a suggestion > for a new function that PHP could have: > > It will be similar to fopen, but instead of actually loading the URL, it > starts loading the page, then once PHP knows that it's started loading, it > will stop it before it's finished; then it would set the variable in the > function's brackets as true. eg: Functname($URL;$trueorfalse). > > This could be used to check if a site is up without having to download the > whole page. > > Regards, > > Ryan > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
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