php man page for http_get

HTTP_GET(3)								 1							       HTTP_GET(3)

http_get - Perform GET request

SYNOPSIS
       string http_get (string	$url, [array  $options], [array  &$info])

DESCRIPTION
	Performs an HTTP GET request on the supplied url.

       See the full list of request options.

PARAMETERS
	      o $url
		- URL

	      o $options
		-request options

	      o $info
		- Will be filled with request/response information

RETURN VALUES
	Returns the HTTP response(s) as string on success, or FALSE on failure.

EXAMPLES
       Example #1

	      A http_get(3) example

	      <?php
	      $response = http_get("http://www.example.com/", array("timeout"=>1), $info);
	      print_r($info);
	      ?>

	      The above example will output:

	      array (
		'effective_url' => 'http://www.example.com/',
		'response_code' => 302,
		'connect_code' => 0,
		'filetime' => -1,
		'total_time' => 0.212348,
		'namelookup_time' => 0.038296,
		'connect_time' => 0.104144,
		'pretransfer_time' => 0.104307,
		'starttransfer_time' => 0.212077,
		'redirect_time' => 0,
		'redirect_count' => 0,
		'size_upload' => 0,
		'size_download' => 218,
		'speed_download' => 1026,
		'speed_upload' => 0,
		'header_size' => 307,
		'request_size' => 103,
		'ssl_verifyresult' => 0,
		'ssl_engines' =>
		array (
		  0 => 'dynamic',
		  1 => 'cswift',
		  2 => 'chil',
		  3 => 'atalla',
		  4 => 'nuron',
		  5 => 'ubsec',
		  6 => 'aep',
		  7 => 'sureware',
		  8 => '4758cca',
		),
		'content_length_download' => 218,
		'content_length_upload' => 0,
		'content_type' => 'text/html',
		'httpauth_avail' => 0,
		'proxyauth_avail' => 0,
		'num_connects' => 1,
		'os_errno' => 0,
		'error' => '',
	      )

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