----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:34 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Correct URL's
> Stefan Rusterholz wrote > > What was the best way to check, if the give address really exists? > Just try this function: > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gethostbyname.php > > It returns the IP address of the given domain. Normally a domain can be > accessed by the browser if it has a valid IP address and everything is > configured correctly. But if I understand this function right, It will only work for URLs like http://www.php.net/ - what if the user has a free space from his ISP which is located in a subdir like http://www.php.net/users/myhome/? > Please do not send HTML messages. Sorry, Outlook is crap and I'm just too lazy to buy (on Win you have to buy almost everything) another e-mail client for my working machine. But I finally moved my ass and changed the options to "send text-only mails". I hope you are happy now :) (m$ thought it was a good idea to hide those options as good as possible - I disagree with them, but that's just normal ;-) > Alexander Stefan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]