Finding the complete url (incl the /index.whatever) of a remote host

[Serpentine]

Hi there,

I need help finding the complete url (incl the /index.whatever) of a remote host.

What I need is a function or way to return the absolute url (http://host/index.php) of a url like (http://host)... of a remote host...

Something like:

$url = "http://www.yahoo.com";
$complete_url = get_complete_url($url);

$complete_url should then be "http://www.yahoo.com/index.html"

I checked it out $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] but that returns the absolute path the current page.

What I need is to get the full path, incl the "/index.html" of outside URLs (many of them), not of the current page on my own server.

[phpmaven]

Maybe you can be a bit more specific as to exactly what you are trying to do and why. Are you trying to find out what url your visitors came from?