fsockopen

Phpers: I cannot for the life of me get this bit of code to work! The server on the other end is echoing back what ever I send to it and when I telnet to it. It correctly echos back whatever I type... The server correctly gets "TESTING1111", but I cannot get its response in $res. It is stuck in an infinite loop with $res = nothing. then MAX_execution time is reached. By adding socket_set_timeout I get it to pass off the data stored in $message but nothing gets placed in $res from the fgets() call... Any clue as to how to force data to be placed into $res? I have experimented with blocking to both true and false and also dumping socket status this is what I get : array(4) { ["timed_out"]=> bool(false) ["blocked"]=> bool(true) ["eof"]=> bool(false) ["unread_bytes"]=> int(0) } Res is I have also had the server send /n (03) and /r/n but that didnt seem to help..... The code: $fp = fsockopen ("x.x.x.x", 65000 , $errno, $errstr, 50) or die ("Connection failed"); $message = "TESTING11111"; fputs($fp,"$message"); $start = time(); socket_set_timeout($fp,5); while(!feof($fp)) { $res .= fgets($fp, 4096); echo "Res is $res <br>"; } echo "$res"; Thanks, Christopher C. M. Allen 1-715-821-4006 callen@nocpop.net