a little help with cURL

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so, so i have shared hosting (yay ^^) and it has disabled sockets, i need a simple function to get the status of a host/port, and iv read that using cURL it is possible. however iv looked cURL, and to me it doesn't look that very reliable.

 

private function getStatus($iHost,$iPort){
return boolean;
}

 

i'm hoping someone here can help thanks