Checking if a link is valid

Hi there! This is a general networking problem, I guess... $fp = fsockopen ($tempUrl, $tempPort, &$errno, &$errstr, 30); // variables are fine, it works in most cases... if ($fp) { fputs ($fp, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n"); $code = fgets($fp,1024); $code = str_replace("HTTP/1.1 ", "", $code); $code = (int)$code; echo $code; fclose($fp); echo " &nbsp;<a href=\"" . $url . "\">" . $tempName . "</a><br>"; } I just have my code that does an fsockopen on a webpage. This works just fine, and in most cases I can extract the error code (404,200 etc.). But now I experienced the following strange behaviour: When trying this on a domain that is automatically redirected by the provider, I just get a 404. If I adress this site with my browser, I get redirected and everything works fine. The url in this case is http://www.gruppe-69.de/ 't is redirected by my provider directly to http://www.gruppe-69.com but my linkchecker thinks it would be dead (404) Any idea how I can check this, too? Thanx and cheers, Kiko ----- It's not a bug, it's a feature. christoph starkmann mailto:kiko@nfq.de http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~kiko ICQ: 100601600 -----