Re: fsockopen nntp stalls

Why not just use the imap extension which supports the NNTP protocol natively? On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Fred wrote: > I am attempting to use fsockopen to connect to a news server. I am able to > successfully connect and authenticate. In fact, I can issue many commands > without a hitch. > > I do, however, have a problem with commands which require multiline results. > For instance, issuing the list command and echoing the results to the > browser invariably results in the browser stalling. There is no timeout > error from php, but after an arbitrary number of lines the browser stalls > and does not receive the rest of the stream. > > I first thought this was some type of timeout error, but the odd thing is > that the amount of data successfully recieves varies depending on the nntp > server. > > For example: server A may have 90,000 groups to list and stalls after > transferring 70,000 or so. On the other hand, server B may have only 300 > groups to list and stalls after 250. > > If anyone has had any experience with this problem, please let me know what > you did to resolve it. > > Fred > > > >