fopen won't work :(

hello. i have been asking for help to get a remote html file echoed onto my webpage since include() doesn't seem to work with it anymore since the new php version/server. one of the list users suggested fopen(). I have used the following code both with and without the trailing url slash: <?$fp=fopen("http://www.wiu.edu/stu/","r"); while (!feof ($fp)){ $buffer=fgets($fp,4096); echo $buffer;}?> but i get the following results with the errors on line 2 and 3 repeating over and over and over below what is displayed below: Warning: fopen(http://www.wiu.edu/stu/) [function.fopen]: failed to create stream: Invalid argument in /hsphere/local/home/user/domain/index.phtml on line 1 Warning: feof(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /hsphere/local/home/user/domain/index.phtml on line 2 Warning: fgets(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /hsphere/local/home/user/domain/index.phtml on line 3 what's wrong? it works with yahoo.com but it takes like 15 seconds (just like include() does now for the sites that work with it). is this possibly a server config problem? allow url fopen is on. what should i check or do? thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com