user and password for socket connection

Hi all, I'm trying to open a socket connection on a client. The server needs a username/password combination for this connection to accept. Does anybody know how to send this with php?? In ASP I use ................ "xmlhttp.Open "POST",sURL, false, sUser, sPass" ,where sUser=myUsername and sPass=myPassword. this script worx, but of course I want to use PHP :-) in php i'm trying......... $hostname="https://www.url.com"; $port=443; $loginmessage="GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: www.php.net\r\n\r\n"; $timeout=30; $fp = fsockopen ($hostname, $port, $errno, $errstr, $timeout); if (!$fp) { echo "$errstr ($errno)<br>\n"; } else { fputs ($fp, $loginmessage); while (!feof($fp)) { echo fgets ($fp,128); } fclose ($fp); } thx Wilbert ------------------------- Pas de Deux Van Mierisstraat 25 2526 NM Den Haag tel 070 4450855 fax 070 4450852 http://www.pdd.nl info@pdd.nl -------------------------