What is the best way to determine if a proxy is available?

Question

I am trying to write a tool to check the availability and availability of a proxy server. So far I have come up with two methods in the class below (I removed the setters and getters unnecessary to this question).

The first method uses cURLand tries to request a page through a proxy, the second tool uses fsockopenand just tries to open a connection to the proxy.

class ProxyList {
    /**
     * You could set this to localhost, depending on your environment
     * @var string The URL that the proxy validation method will use to check proxies agains
     * @see ProxyList::validate()
     */
    const VALIDATION_URL = "http://m.www.yahoo.com/robots.txt";
    const TIMEOUT        = 3;

    private static $valid = array(); // Checked and valid proxies
    private $proxies      = array(); // An array of proxies to check

    public function validate($useCache=true) {
        $mh       = curl_multi_init();
        $ch       = null;
        $handles  = array();
        $delay    = count($this->proxies) * 10000;
        $running  = null;
        $proxies  = array();
        $response = null;

        foreach ( $this->proxies as $p ) {
            // Using the cache and the proxy already exists?  Skip the rest of this crap
            if ( $useCache && !empty(self::$valid[$p]) ) {
                $proxies[] = $p;
                continue;
            }

            $ch = curl_init();
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION,    CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,             self::VALIDATION_URL);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, true);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY,           $p);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY,          true); // Also sets request method to HEAD
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,          false);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,  true);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,         self::TIMEOUT);

            curl_multi_add_handle($mh, $ch);
            $handles[$p] = $ch;
        }

        // Execute the multi-handle
        do {
            curl_multi_exec($mh, $running);
            usleep($delay);
        } while ( $running );

        // Get the results of the requests
        foreach ( $handles as $proxy => $ch ) {
            $status = (int)curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

            // Great success
            if ( $status >= 200 && $status < 300 ) {
                self::$valid[$proxy] = true;
                $proxies[] = $proxy;
            }
            else {
                self::$valid[$proxy] = false;
            }

            // Cleanup individual handle
            curl_multi_remove_handle($mh, $ch);
        }

        // Cleanup multiple handle
        curl_multi_close($mh);

        return $this->proxies = $proxies;
    }

    public function validate2($useCache=true) {
        $proxies = array();

        foreach ( $this->proxies as $proxy ) {
            // Using the cache and the proxy already exists?  Skip the rest of this crap
            if ( $useCache && !empty(self::$valid[$proxy]) ) {
                $proxies[] = $proxy;
                continue;
            }

            list($host, $post) = explode(":", $proxy);

            if ( $conn = @fsockopen($host, $post, $errno, $error, self::TIMEOUT) ) {
                self::$valid[$proxy] = true;
                $proxies[] = $proxy;
                fclose($conn);
            } else {
                self::$valid[$proxy] = false;
            }
        }

        return $this->proxies = $proxies;
    }
}

Until now, I prefer the method cURL, as it allows me to check large batches of proxies in parallel, which is evil fast, and not one at a time, like fsockopen.

I have not done much work with proxies, so it’s hard for me to say if one of these methods is enough to check the availability of the proxy server or if there is a better method that I am missing.

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