Checking if remote file exists?

[Anon]

How can I check if a REMOTE file exists (before 'fopen'ing it)? I know how to check if a local file exists, via the file_exists function, but this doesn't work for remote files...?

[Anon]

Yeah, the same as in my orginal post, but, without the PHP outputting a warning/error on the page....

[Anon]

$host = "www.php.net";
$url = "/index.php";

$fp = fsockopen($host, 80);
socket_set_blocking($fp, TRUE);
fwrite($fp, "GET $url HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: $host\r\n\r\n");
for($result = ""; !feof($fp); $result .= fread($fp, 10000000));
fclose($fp);

// Optionally extract headers with something like
// $result = substr($result, 0, strpos($result, "\r\n\r\n"));

echo !stristr($result, "404 Not Found") ? "OK" : "Bad";

[Anon]

and if you wanna get rid of warnings for built in functions, just prepend them with @ signs. like this:

$body = @fread($fp,4096);