Reading Remote Files

Hi folks, I'm having trouble working with a remote file. What I want to do is grab an HTML file from our partner's site, and remove a chunk of between two html comments <!--Start border1--> & <!--End border1--> and then display what's left of the file in the browser. The first problem is when I do fread it dies in the following code $filename="http://www.remoteserver.com/thefile.html"; $fp=fopen($filename, "r") or die("couldn't open"); $body=fread($fp, filesize($filename)) or die("couldn't read"); I'm guessing it can't get the filesize from a remote system, is there a way around this? Of course after this problem is solved, I have to figure out how to cut out the chunk of text.