Posted by webbyfoot on 12/17/60 11:56

I've a form where users suggest a website by entering the url - and
want to redirect them to a 'thanks but no thanks' page if the site
doesn't actually exist

I tried the following:

$fp = fsockopen($HTTP_POST_VARS['url'],80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if(!$fp) {
header("Location: nothanks.php");
}

But get 'Warning:' errors when fsockopen doesn't connect so my
redirection header can't be written. There are no warnings when the url
is good so its the failed connection - which is what I wanted to detect
- not a script error thats causing the warnings.

I expect there's a simple solution but I gave up trawling through the
web after two hours and hope one of you kind folks can put me straight
:-)

Thanks,

John

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