Re: Suggestion: If URL Loads Initially, then stop
| From: | Xuefer | Date: | Thu, 14 Apr 2005 02:36:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Suggestion: If URL Loads Initially, then stop | ||
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On 4/13/05, Ryan Hemelaar <ryan@royalfoods.com.au> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I don't know if this is the place to do it, but anyway. I have a suggestion
> for a new function that PHP could have:
>
> It will be similar to fopen, but instead of actually loading the URL, it
> starts loading the page, then once PHP knows that it's started loading, it
> will stop it before it's finished; then it would set the variable in the
> function's brackets as true. eg: Functname($URL;$trueorfalse).
>
> This could be used to check if a site is up without having to download the
> whole page.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ryan
>
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