[PHP] Re: fopen >> custom 404 issue

[Justin Patrin]

Mike D wrote:
I am trying to read in a particular page to a variable. How do you handle if
the page is a 404 and then redirects to a custom error page? Am I supposed
to use fsockopen and read headers or ?? Ideally I need to pull the
end-result page to search for a string in it.
Here's the code

$handle = fopen("http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=12345678";, "rb");
$contents = "";
do 
{
     $data = fread($handle, 8192);
     if (strlen($data)==0)
         break;
     $contents .= $data;
} while(true);
fclose ($handle);

Thanks guys

....................................
Mike Dunlop
AWN, Inc.
// www.awn.com
[ e ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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You can use PEAR's HTTP_Request, which will do redirects for you (and 
lots of other stuff ;-).
http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request

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