stream_set_timeout() mystery

Anyone see why stream_set_timeout() / socket_get_status() don't work? $fp= fopen($URL_full, 'r'); stream_set_timeout($fp, 0, 1); tried other values for microseconds $procque_str= fread($fp, 8096); print_r(socket_get_status($fp)) ; Print_r is:

Array (

    [wrapper_data] => Array
        (
            [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
            [1] => Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:45:12 GMT
            [2] => Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7d PowWeb/1.1
            [3] => Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
            [4] => Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
            [5] => Pragma: no-cache
            [6] => X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.10
            [7] => Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=d253e66f43edf09f0d461709db95b178; path=/
            [8] => Connection: close
            [9] => Content-Type: text/html
        )

    [wrapper_type] => HTTP
    [stream_type] => socket
    [unread_bytes] => 0
    [timed_out] =>     [blocked] => 1
    [eof] => )