Reading a file from another server

Hi Everyone. I'm having problems creating code to read a file from another server. 1. Is this even possible? with a secure server aswell? 2. I have tried using fopen() but this always gives me an error: Warning: stat failed for http://www.domain.com/test.txt (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in /home/domain/public_html/php/testphp/test.php on line 4 this is my code: <?php $filename = "http://www.domain.com/test.txt"; $handle = fopen ($filename, "r"); $content = fread($handle, filesize ($filename)); fclose($handle); echo $content; ?> can anyone help me. I need to put this on my server, and read this other file form a game server....but I can't seem to do it. Cheers for any help