<code lang="php">
/**
	 * Returns the contents of a web page
	 *
	 * Opens a remote web document, and returns the contents.  This method
	 * uses sockets to get the document.  Returns the contents of the document with
	 * the headers being stored in the $headers variable.
	 * This method can handle 301 and 302 redirects, but will return false
	 * if anything other than those status codes, or a 200, is returned by
	 * the web server.
	 *
	 * @param	string	$url		The URL to the web page
	 * @param	string	$headers	The HTTP headers will be stored in this variable
	 * @param	int		$port	Optional port number to use for grabbing the document
	 * @param	int		$timeout	The number of seconds to try before giving up
	 * @return	mixed
	 */
	function get_http_document($url, &$headers = null, $port = 80, $timeout = 8) {
		$pURL = parse_url($url);
		
		if (empty($pURL['host'])) {
			return false;
		}

		$remotePath = 		(isset($pURL['path'])) ? $pURL['path'] : '/';
		$remoteDocument = 	(empty($pURL['query'])) ? $remotePath : $remotePath . '?' . $pURL['query'];
		
		if (!$fp = fsockopen($pURL['host'], $port, $errno, $errstr, $timeout)) {
			return false;
		}
		
		$out = 	"GET $remoteDocument HTTP/1.0\r\n";	
		$out .= 	"Host: {$pURL['host']}\r\n";
		$out .= 	"Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
		fwrite($fp, $out);
		unset($out);
		
		$received = '';
		while (!feof($fp)) {
			$received .= fread($fp, 128);
		}
		fclose($fp);

		// Seperate the headers from the content
		$parts = explode("\r\n\r\n", $received, 2);
		$headers = $parts[0];
		$content = $parts[1];
		unset($parts);
		

		$headerParts = explode("\r\n", $headers);
		if (!preg_match('~HTTP/1\.\d ([\d]+)~i', $headerParts[0], $matches)) {
			return false;
		}
		$statusCode = $matches[1];
		
		if ($statusCode == 200) {
			return $content;
		} else if ($statusCode != 301 && $statusCode != 302) {
			return false;
		}
		
		if (!preg_match('~^Location:(.*)$~im', $headers, $matches)) {
			return false;
		}
		$newLocation = trim($matches[1]);
		return get_http_document($newLocation, $headers, $port, $timeout);
	}
</code>