stream_set_timeout issue with ssl connection

Hello everyone, i have an issue with stream_set_timeout and ssl. I've written a php irc newsbot and my code looks like this: [...] while (!feof($con['socket']))

               {
                       stream_set_timeout($con['socket'], $CONFIG['qtime']);

[...] I need this timeout because i want to read the news every X seconds from the Database. I use $con['buffer'] = trim(fgets($con['socket'], 4096)); to get the data. If i don't use the stream_set_timeout the bot would wait until it recieves data. In fact this solution works, but only if i connect with fsockopen to a non ssl connection. If i use a ssl connection steam_set_timeout seems to be ignored. Any clues or workarounds? Sebastian PS: You can download the whole code on http://muzybot.de/phpircbot.tar.gz or http://muzybot.de/phpircbot.zip