function wp_get_http_headers( $url, $red = 1 ) {
	global $wp_version;
	@set_time_limit( 60 );

	if ( $red > 5 )
	   return false;

	$parts = parse_url( $url );
	$file = $parts['path'] . ($parts['query'] ? '?'.$parts['query'] : '');
	$host = $parts['host'];
	if ( !isset( $parts['port'] ) )
		$parts['port'] = 80;

	$head = "HEAD $file HTTP/1.1\r\nHOST: $host\r\nUser-Agent: WordPress/" . $wp_version . "\r\n\r\n";

	$fp = @fsockopen($host, $parts['port'], $err_num, $err_msg, 3);
	if ( !$fp )
		return false;

	$response = '';
	fputs( $fp, $head );
	while ( !feof( $fp ) && strpos( $response, "\r\n\r\n" ) == false )
		$response .= fgets( $fp, 2048 );
	fclose( $fp );
	preg_match_all('/(.*?): (.*)\r/', $response, $matches);
	$count = count($matches[1]);
	for ( $i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {
		$key = strtolower($matches[1][$i]);
		$headers["$key"] = $matches[2][$i];
	}

    $code = preg_replace('/.*?(\d{3}).*/i', '$1', $response);
    
    $headers['status_code'] = $code;
    
    if ( '302' == $code || '301' == $code )
        return wp_get_http_headers( $url, ++$red );

	preg_match('/.*([0-9]{3}).*/', $response, $return);
	$headers['response'] = $return[1]; // HTTP response code eg 204, 200, 404
	return $headers;
}

// Deprecated.  Use the new post loop.
function start_wp() {
	global $wp_query, $post;

	// Since the old style loop is being used, advance the query iterator here.
	$wp_query->next_post();

	setup_postdata($post);
}