Re: fopen >> custom 404 issue

Mike D wrote:

I am trying to read in a particular page to a variable. How do you handle if the page is a 404 and then redirects to a custom error page? Am I supposed to use fsockopen and read headers or ?? Ideally I need to pull the end-result page to search for a string in it. Here's the code $handle = fopen("http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=12345678", "rb"); $contents = ""; do {

     $data = fread($handle, 8192);
     if (strlen($data)==0)
         break;
     $contents .= $data;

} while(true); fclose ($handle); Thanks guys .................................... Mike Dunlop AWN, Inc. // www.awn.com [ e ] webmaster@awn.com [ p ] 323.606.4237

You can use PEAR's HTTP_Request, which will do redirects for you (and lots of other stuff ;-). http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request -- paperCrane <Justin Patrin>