file or fopen to fetch a web page???

From: Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:35:38 +0000
Subject: file or fopen to fetch a web page???
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Hello, I wonder myself, which method is better to fetch a web page: $file = fopen($url, "r"); $page = fread($file, 50000); or $file = join('', file($url)); , speaking from the performance point of view? (or is there any better?). Thanks.

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