in the response you'll be getting the raw http response (including headers); so you're saving them as well thus not a valid image file.
can't see why:
$image = file_get_contents('http://10.10.10.3/record/current.jpg');
wouldn't work for you..
regardless though if you are using sockets, be sure to trim of that raw http response - oh and look out for chunked or encoded file transfer as well as you'll need to decode etc etc.. (large can of worms - use an http transport class)
file_get_contents worked beautifully. Thanks for the suggestion!
Jay
