note 13519 added to function.fsockopen.php

If you want to use fsockopen() to retrieve a document via HTTP, and it's not the default document of the root, or you want to get the header, try following: // Split into components $URLInfo = parse_url($URL); // If 'path' is not set, use root $DocumentPath = ($URLInfo["path"])?$URLInfo["path"]:"/"; // If there is also a 'query' if ($URLInfo["query"]) $DocumentPath = $DocumentPath."?".$URLInfo["query"]; // Open connection $conn = fsockopen($URLInfo["host"], 80, &$errno, $errstr, 30); if ($conn) { // Get it fputs ($conn, "GET ".$DocumentPath." HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n"); // Read content while (!feof($conn)) { echo fgets($conn,128); } // Close connection fclose($conn); } Note: You will also recieve the document header. It's terminated by a CRLF line. For more information see RFC1945 (HTTP/1.0) or RFC2068 (HTTP/1.1) on www.rfc.net http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php