Retrieving text file

Hi All, I am completely new to all this, so please bare with me. I have permission to use another person's text file which resides on his server. Currently I manually download the file, process it in Excel, then upload it into my MySQL database. I want to try to automate this process, and the first step I see if getting the file from his server onto mine for processing. I will be using a cron job for this. This is what I currently have, but I get errors... $WebFile="http://www.somesite.com/somefile.txt"; $LocalFile="/path/to/somefile.txt"; $handle = fopen ($WebFile, "r"); $outhandle=fopen ($LocalFile,"w"); while (!feof($handle)) { $buffer=fread($handle,4096); fputs($outhandle,$buffer); } fclose($handle); fclose($outhandle); When I try running this I get error after error: Warning: fopen("http://www.somesite.com/somefile.txt","r") - No error in trial.php on line 5 Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in trial.php on line 7 Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in trial.php on line 8 The last two lines repeat themselves until the script times out. Help! I am desperate!! The file definently exists but I am stuck. Thank you, Michael.