Problem with fputs/fgets

I'm in the process of writing a very very simple web-based email client, just for my personal use, so I can perm-delete all the spam that comes in through the day on my home account before i get home. On the very first connect, its great.. connects, does a 'uidl' which lists all the mail ID's (the 'else' part of the if statement below) The problem lies where I click the generated link and attempt to read a message, the browser load just hangs (despite the set_time_limit()) and when I cancel it, the server tells me there's another connection active. I have an fputs($pop, "QUIT\r\n); as well as an fclose($pop); .. Shouldn't this be sufficient to make sure the connection is closed before my visit to trying to read a message? Or is that not the problem? I'm thinking its something with the actual ($action == "read") code.. but... what would it be? Thanks for all help! -Jason Code---- <? if (isset($_GET['action'])) $action = $_GET['action']; if (isset($_GET['msg'])) $msg = $_GET['msg']; $pop = fsockopen("pop.server", 110, $errno, $errstr, 300); fgets($pop,255); fputs($pop,"USER name\r\n"); fgets($pop,255); fputs($pop,"PASS word\r\n"); $status = fgets($pop,255); if (substr($status, 0, 4) == "-ERR") { echo $status; exit(); } if ($action == "read") { set_time_limit(10); $cmd = "top $msg 10"; fputs($pop, $cmd); $themsg = fgets($pop); echo $themsg; } else { fputs($pop,"uidl\r\n"); // Get list of messages $list = fgets($pop,255)."<br>"; $list = substr($list, 4, strpos($list, " ", 3)); for ($i = 1; $i <= $list; $i++) {

    $curr = fgets($pop);
    echo "<a href=\"?action=read&msg=".substr($curr, 0, strpos($curr, " "))."\">$curr</a><br>";

} echo "<br>$list messages"; } fputs($pop,"QUIT\r\n"); echo fgets($pop); fclose($pop); ?>