> try this function, I lifted almost all of this stuff > off of the manual > and the zend site....... Hey! Thanks Matt, it works like a charm! Exactly what I was looking for, its giving me either a 200status header or a 404 and I can easily work from there. I have been going through the code (the curl part), some of it seems a bit complicated and other parts dont need an explanation... will go through the manual when I get time, I'm trying to learn about classes and regular expressions for now plus work on a project. I did find some classes,code and links via google that actually fetches the remote file but for some reason people left out the part if you want to just verify a file's existance... Thanks again, Mag ===== ------ - The faulty interface lies between the chair and the keyboard. - Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster! - Smile, everyone loves a moron. :-) _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php