fgets hangs on a socket

Hi all, This is driving me crazy. I have seen all the posts regarding this matter but I don't see a solution. The problem is that fgets or feof doesn't seem to be able to detect the end of the data. It hangs on what I suspect is a multiple of 128. If I change 128 to 2, I get the whole file, but it hangs after the last character. PLEASE: how do I tell this thing to stop reading from the socket? I am guessing that webservers do not send eofs on the end of the HTTP data, so I am looking for another way to see that there is no more data on the socket. THANKS HEAPS for any help, PHP legends. //----------------------------------------------------------------------- // Open the connection $fp = fsockopen('203.58.190.226', 80, &$err_num, &$err_msg, 30); if ($fp) { // Send everything fputs($fp, $header . $request); // Get the response while (!feof($fp)) { echo fgets($fp, 128); } fclose($fp); } //----------------------------------------------------------------------- Regards, Tyson Lloyd Thwaites I.T.&e Ltd