mai( ) with html

Hi, I'm trying to send HTML in an email by using the mail( ) function. This is a well documented and much talked about function, and I've already been successful in sending regular text email and basic HTML. The twist is that I want to first grab HTML from another server via HTTP, put this content into a string, and then use mail( ) to send it to an address. I've been working a whole day, and while the email does send, the message body is blank--no HTML, no text, nothing. Here's what I'm trying: // this doesn't work. blank email body is received $fp = fopen ("http://www.somesite.com", "r"); $msg = ""; while($data= fread ($fp, 1024)) $msg .= $data; mail($to, $subject, $msg, "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n")) So, a file connection is made to some webpage on another server, and the data is read into a variable, $msg. Note that the data IS successfully read, as I've verified by echoing to the browser as well as writing to a local file. When the data is used as the message of the email to be sent out, a blank email body is received! However, if HTML is hardcoded into $msg (instead of read in via an http connection), the email is sent perfectly, and HTML is seen in the email body: // this works fine $msg = "<html><body>testing</body></html"; // this can be as complex as you like mail($to, $subject, $msg, "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n")) Can someone please help?