use fsockopen
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php to \"talk\" to the remote host.

>Is there a way for PHP to attempt to open a URL and return > the HTTP response 
>header? 
> For example, I want to make a PHP page which will redirect a visitor to a 
> mirror site if it encounters a 404 Not found error whilst > trying to open the 
>website homepage. This test page will reside on a seperate server. 
> I was thinking maybe attempting to open the homepage with > something like fopen() 
>and, using nested if() statements, > try the next mirror in the list 
> if the fopen() command didnt succeed. 
> Any ideas? 

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