RE: [PHP] check if an url is valid

no, sockets are not a bad solution at all. They are just as fast. And plus fsockopen has more functionality such as timing out, result messages, mess_num etc... what fopen doesn't have. I think fsockopen is better for this job. Sincerely, Maxim Maletsky Founder, Chief Developer PHPBeginner.com (Where PHP Begins) maxim@phpbeginner.com www.phpbeginner.com -----Original Message----- From: Black Dragon [mailto:edinf@libero.it] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 6:41 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] check if an url is valid Hi! can you tell me how can I check if a remote files exists? I've tried with fopen, but I've a warning on STDOUT if file doesn't exists. I wouldn't redirect the STDERR to solve this problem. I could use fsockopen, but I feel that this is a bad solution. Can you tell me something that is easy? I would a function that return true/false if an url is/not is valid; without error to browser Thanks -- 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