Designed for ISPs to put on a local server for speed testing between broadband connections. Optionally saves results into a MySQL database. For viewing by an administrator. more
phpIP Management is tool to manage IP addresses. It features authentication
for accessing the IP database, form validity checks, and customizable searches. more
Some web sites (like IMDb) prevent external scripts from parsing their contents by denying request without a user-agent string. Though this can be circumvented by manually sending the necessary headers, this is usually too complicated.
These functions (be_fopen and be_file) wrap the fsockopen calls and send all the necessary headers before returning a file handle usable with any PHP function. more