pecl_http unsuppressible error messages

Hello, I'm trying to use pecl_http to check the validity of a link taken as input. It's working quite nicely except in one case: When I call a server and get a request timeout, an error message gets echoed to the output stream no matter what I try to do to suppress it. My code: //try { //error_reporting(0); $response = @http_head($url, array("timeout"=>1), $info); $parsedResponse = http_parse_headers($response); echo "responseCode = " . $parsedResponse['Response Code'] . ";\n"; echo "responseStatus = '" . $parsedResponse['Response Status'] . "';\n"; //} catch(Exception $e) { // //handle error //} With or without the '@', with or without the commented lines, I consistently get the PHP error table giving the following message before my echoed text appears: Sorry, an error has occurred with this website. The staff have been informed, and it will be fixed as soon as possible ERROR: http_head() [function.http-head]: a timeout was reached; Operation timed out after 1 seconds with 0 bytes received (http://offending.url/) Does anyone have any thoughts on how I could suppress the timeout message? When I put this into production, I'll increase the timeout value, but I still need to catch request timeouts explicitly and issue a custom error message rather than echoing HTML to a page that isn't supposed to be HTML. Thanks, -Brian