Checking to see it a host is up.

Ok let me be more specific. I know I could do this with perl but it is going to be used on a page that will be loaded hundreds of times a minute, and so it needs to be fast. I was hoping that php had a function that could be used to do this, something like perl's webping. -----Original Message----- From: Fifield, Mike [mailto:Mike.Fifield@schwab.com] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 9:36 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Checking to see it a host is up. I am looking for a way to check to see if a website is up, something like a ping command. Does anyone know of a way to do this? Mike Fifield Charles Schwab & Co, Inc. WARNING: All e-mail sent to or from this address will be received by the Charles Schwab corporate e-mail system and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php