Try this (works for me in PHP3):
$openaddress = eregi_replace("http://", "", $address);
$web = fsockopen("$openaddress", 80);
fputs($web, "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n");
while (!feof($web)) {
$goodheader = fgets($web, 1024);
if(!strcmp($goodheader, "\n"))
break;
echo $goodheader;
}
fclose($web);
--ph