how to pass header information without cURL when requesting a webpage

[dsaba]

I am aware of cURL and its ability to send customized headers on HTTP requests.

I've been looking at these functions:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.stream.php

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-socket-sendto.php

 

 

I read but I didn't see anything about being able to send headers on HTTP requests, how can I do this without cURL in php?

 

Any ideas?

[MadTechie]

use sockets

<?php
$connection = fsockopen ("www.phpfreaks.com", 80);
if ($connection)
{
fwrite($connection, "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\r\nHOST: www.phpfreaks.com\r\n\r\n");
}
?>