XMLRPC and file_get_contents

Hi all, I'm writing an XML-REC client in PHP, based on the following example: <?php $request = xmlrpc_encode_request("method", array(1, 2, 3)); $context = stream_context_create(array('http' => array(

    'method' => "POST",
    'header' => "Content-Type: text/xml",
    'content' => $request

))); $file = file_get_contents("http://www.example.com/xmlrpc", false, $context); $response = xmlrpc_decode($file); if (xmlrpc_is_fault($response)) {

    trigger_error("xmlrpc: $response[faultString] ($response[faultCode])");

} else {

    print_r($response);

} ?> If the XMLRPC call takes longer than say 30 seconds, the file_get_contents method doesn't returns null, and the script finishes. However, the XMLRPC server is not finished with the computation and gets a broken pipe since the client has already closed the connection. Is there some timeout? Am I doing something wrong? Kind regards, Andreas