HTML parsing

[stovellp]

Howdy,

In your opinion, what would be the fastest way to download an HTML file from the internet and parse it for links in PHP? I could do the socket stuff myself but does PHP have any other functions to do this a lot easier?

Thanks for any help,
~ Paul

[Weedpacket]

Just use [man]file[/man]...?

[superwormy]

fopen()

But I"ve found fsockopen() is more reliable, plus you can send customized headers, and view the returned headers as well.

And really... fsockopen() isn't that hard to use...