I suppose you could, but it seems a poor way, just use the header tag instead: if ($redir_needed) { header('Location: http://www.example.com'); writelog("user redirected"); } On Friday 23 December 2005 2:04 am, Yemi Obembe wrote: > Any way i can use fsockopen to detect url redirections? for example if ds: > www.ex1.com redirects to www.ex2.com and i'm using: > > $fp = fsockopen(www.ex1.com, 80) > .... > > to connect to the site, anyway i can know if there is a redirection to > another url? -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php