Hi mailing_list!
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Something strange:
> A script, that uses file("http://xyz.com") does work on one sever!
> Then I copied it to another server (physically more far away from the
> server from which I fetch the html-page with file()) - same PHP ...
> Now file() returns always an empty string (about in 1 try out of 1000 it
> is successful!!!! - I tested it!!)
>
> Is there another method, to fetch a html-page?
>
yap, fopen() the location, then test is the return code != false.
$tries = 3;
while (($fd = fopen("http://foo.bar","r")) == false && $tries) {
sleep (4 - $tries);
--$tries;
}
if (!$fd) die ("Page not available or server foo.bar is down");
-- teodor
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