PHP libraries? Function to open remote http doc

Specifically, I'm opening a remote http document where I need to provide cookie information and possibly other headers AND deal with potential redirections (effectively, I have to proxy the request and parse the results before passing them back to the user). I've written a real kludge of a function that does basically what I need (sort of like fopen, but read-only and with an optional headers field so the caller can pass it httpd auth and cookies and what-not), but I can't help but think that this sort of function is something which should have been needed by countless others already and that someone has already written a complete implementation. Perhaps there's a library which incorporates such a function? I also note extreme server loading (a single httpd process can consume 90%+ of CPU) when fetching remote files like so: while ( $feof( $fp ) ) { $line = fread( $fp, 4096 ); fwrite( $fo, $line ); } Once negotiation is performed, this is the beef of the script. Pointers anyone? --- Please DO NOT carbon me on list replies. I'll get my copy from the list. Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering Post Box 2395 / San Rafael, CA 94912-2395