Can't get remote files

[Sam]

In order to save me a lot of work, I looked for something like this and found it.
Unfortunately, this library can't get information from remote files.
This is actually the most important part.
I'm posting the below function to this form hoping that you would use it to extend the library to get information from remote files too.

function remote_file_exists ($url)
{
/*
Returning values:
TRUE = File Exists
1 = Invalid URL host
2 = Unable to connect to remote host

// example:
//$url = "http://www.google.it/intl/it_it/images/logo.gif";
$url = "http://motion4u.sytes.net/057movie04.rm";

if (remote_file_exists ($url))
{ print ($url . " file exists!"); }
else
{ print ($url . " file doesn't exist!"); }
*/

$head = "";
$url_p = parse_url ($url);

if (isset ($url_p["host"]))
{ $host = $url_p["host"]; }
else
{ return 1; }

if (isset ($url_p["path"]))
{ $path = $url_p["path"]; }
else
{ $path = ""; }

$fp = fsockopen ($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, 20);
if (!$fp)
{ return 2; }
else
{
$parse = parse_url($url);
$host = $parse['host'];

fputs($fp, "HEAD ".$url." HTTP/1.1\r\n");
fputs($fp, "HOST: ".$host."\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");
$headers = "";
while (!feof ($fp))
{ $headers .= fgets ($fp, 128); }
}
fclose ($fp);
$arr_headers = explode("\n", $headers);
$return = false;
if (isset ($arr_headers[0]))
{ $return = strpos ($arr_headers[0], "404") === false; }
return $return;
}

[biosonik]

Remote fetching was took out of getID3 a while back.

There isn't any point putting it back in plus remote fetching functions/code is scattered all over this forum.

[tony98]

Remote fetching was took out of getID3 a while back.

There isn't any point putting it back in plus remote fetching functions/code is scattered all over this forum.

could u point me to a remote fetching functions i could not find one.Thanks

[astemokoholic]

Totally agree with You :) Thumbs up