PHP Spawn HTTP Request Fork HTTP Request

spawn-request.php

	/**
	 * Launch a new PHP process at the given URL
	 * @param string $url
	 */
	public function spawn_request($url) {
		$url_a = parse_url($url);
		$port = isset($url_a["port"]) ? $url_a["port"] : 80;
		$fp = fsockopen($url_a["host"], $port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
		$output  = "GET " . $url_a["path"] . "?" . $url_a["query"] . " HTTP/1.0\r\n";
		$output .= "Host: " . $url_a["host"] . "\r\n";
		$output .= "\r\n";
		fwrite($fp, $output);
		sleep(3);  // Give the server and network a few seconds to start the request before closing the socket
		fclose($fp);
		if ($errno) {
			$error_message = "Error in spawn_request fsockopen. Error number '$errno'. Error message '$errstr'";
			error_log($error_message);
		}
		die;
	}