note 36034 deleted from function.fsockopen by danbrown

Note Submitter: pulstar at ig dot com dot br ---- To emulate a web browser with PHP using socket functions, there is a very good class to do this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/ Some of its features: * easily fetch the contents of a web page * easily fetch the text from a web page (strip html tags) * easily fetch the the links from a web page (add a filter for "mailto:" links and you can easily fetch e-mail addresses). * supports proxy hosts * supports basic user/pass authentication * supports setting user_agent, referer, cookies and header content * supports browser redirects, and controlled depth of redirects * expands fetched links to fully qualified URLs (default) * easily submit form data and retrieve the results * supports SSL and frames