HTTP URL error code

[atomm]

I'm looking for a way to find out the error code (404, 301, etc.) returned from a web server for any given URL. Say I put in http://www.atommic.com/nonexistant_url. (I already know the server is a valid host and allows http connections.) It should then give me 404 as a result.

I don't know if this is something that should be obvious... I'm relatively new to PHP, but I looked through the documentation, and I couldn't find any good methods aside from using a socket to establish an HTTP connection to do what I need.

Does anyone know a way to do this?

Thanks

[Icarus]

Have a look at the advanced http class at http://lightwood.mirrors.phpclasses.org ... e/576.html

That should get you started

[Jay]

Different OS's will give different outputs, depending on how PHP is compiled. Set up your own custom 404 and use print_r($_SERVER). It'll then list all the server variables and one of them will contain the 404!