HTTP & HEAD

[aspiers]

Guys & Gals,

I am trying to write a script which gets all of the external links on my site, then visits them to check that they are all valid. The problem is that the script only works for certain sites and doesn't work for sites that I know are OK. The code is below, can anyone help ?

 $fp1 = fsockopen( "$host", 80, &$errno, &$errdesc, 10);
 print "Trying $host<br>\n";
 if ( ! $fp1)
   {
    print "Couldn't connect to $host:\n<br>Error: $errno\n<br>Desc: $errdesc\n";
    print "<br><hr><br>\n";
    continue;
   }
 print "Trying to get $page<br>\n";
 fputs( $fp1, "HEAD $page HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n" );
 print fgets( $fp1, 1024 );
 print "<br><hr><br>\n";

[Anon]

I've given a function that implements what you want at www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=1&id=107950&thread=107941

Servers which don't work with your code may be multi-hosted (need HTTP/1.1 and Host header).

[aspiers]

Thanks for that. It did the trick.