[wp-hackers] Re: Preferred method of fetching remote webpage?

[Daniel Cheng]

Viper007Bond wrote:
> I've been using this bit of code in a plugin I wrote:
> 
> http://viper007bond.pastebin.com/724979
> 
> However, should I be using Snoopy or something for this? I mean, is 
> there any drawback to using fsockopen?

Does your implementation handle HTTP 3xx Redirections ?
    <?php header("Location: .... "); ?>

> 
> -Viper