HTTP Status for Remote URIs

[tkircht]

I am looking for a way to verify the status for Remote URIs. I know I can use the file() function to see if it exists, but I don't get the http status. apache_lookup_uri does exactly that but apparently only for local URIs.
I want to write a simple link-checker that gives the HTTP-status of each request as a result.
Solutions for PHP3 would be preferred 😉

Thomas

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Read the RFC for the HTTP protocol, and read the PHP manual about sockets and fsockopen.

All you have to do is open a socket to the remote host and ask for the HTTP header.
The first line you get back is the status.