Getting at headers when requesting a URL

[mralston]

I want to fetch a URL in PHP with fopen or popen or something.
Getting the main content of the page is fine, but I want to access the headers that the server sends back with the page. I'm sure it can be done with popen (or some command to open a tcp/ip connection to port 80?)

[Oleg Butuzov]

it is imposible...

you just can view a result of the fopen function work...

[mralston]

Actually it is possible. Somebody else just gave me the answer. fsockopen does the trick. But thanks anyway. :wink:

[WiZARD]

Actually it is possible. Somebody else just gave me the answer. fsockopen does the trick. But thanks anyway. :wink:

You mean get info from server like type of Broowser, IP, etc?

[mralston]

That's the ticket. In this case I was after the "Location" header - the page I'm requesting is a 301-page-moved redirect page. I've got it working now.