Ping in PHP4

[Anon]

Which is the best (most reliable and fastest) way to ping a web site or get the html content of the given URL in a string variable. I tried a script using fsockopen() but it doesnt seem to work with URL's like : www.domain.com/subfolder or www.domain.com/subfolder/somefile.htm

Any help is appreciated!

[Anon]

ping just work with www.domain.com
not www.domain.com/test.htm

yorgo

[Anon]

try it:

<?
$htm=join('',file("http://www.foobar.org"));
print $htm;
?>

[Anon]

Doesnt work if the URL is not found. The control in that case goes in a loop.