Re: Why not 'file_exists()' for URLs?

[Since original poster requests for procedure for feature/change request.] You can use bug reporting system to request new feature or changes. http://www.php.net/bugs.php Use "Feature/Change Request" as "Type of bug". It will be sent to php-dev mail list and stored as feature/change request in db. Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki "Mike" <pallmall@hushmail.com> wrote in message news:1103_985083470@matthew... > On 19 Mar 2001 06:53:00 -0800, david@davidgunter.com ("David G.") wrote: > > Since fopen/fread/fclose all work with standard URLs, why not allow > > file_exists() to work with URLs as well? > > What is the procedure to make such a request? > > > Try this: > > function url_exist($url) { > $url_parts = parse_url($url); > $fp = fsockopen($url_parts["host"], 80); > if (!$fp) return false; > $path = $url_parts["path")?$url_parts["path"]:"/"; > fwrite($fp, "GET $path HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n"); > $response = fgets($fp, 500); > preg_match("/^HTTP\/\d\.\d[ \t]+(\d+)[ \t]*([^\r]*)/", $response, $matches); > switch ($matches[1]) { > case 404: // HTTP error not found > return false; > case 200: // HTTP OK > return true; > default: > return false; // other responses probably counts false > } > } > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >