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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:54:53 +1000
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Subject: Suggestion: If URL Loads Initially, then stop
From: ryan@royalfoods.com.au ("Ryan Hemelaar")

Hi there,

I don't know if this is the place to do it, but anyway. I have a suggestion 
for a new function that PHP could have:

It will be similar to fopen, but instead of actually loading the URL, it 
starts loading the page, then once PHP knows that it's started loading, it 
will stop it before it's finished; then it would set the variable in the 
function's brackets as true. eg: Functname($URL;$trueorfalse).

This could be used to check if a site is up without having to download the 
whole page.

Regards,


Ryan