fopen never ends?

From:	Paul van Brouwershaven	Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:26:52 +0000
Subject:	fopen never ends?
Groups:	php.general
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When you run the folling script, it will never ends? I have seen this more then once, I know that there is no service running at the target host, but why is the script not printing the failed message? It's only with a few ip-number I have this problem. if ($fp = fopen('https://81.23.227.9', 'rb', false)) {

        echo "ok";

} else {

        echo "failed";

} Best Regards, Paul van Brouwershaven