HTTP gzip-compression and fopen

Hi. I was writing a slashdot RSS-parser for my homepage, and wrote a simple function to fetch the slashdot.rdf-file from slashdot, and parse it using PEAR's XML/RSS.php. Here's the core reading the remote file: $fp = @fopen("http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf", "r"); if (!$fp) { return 0; } $raw = fread($fp, 10000); fclose($fp); Now, it seems like slashdot is doing som on-the-fly gzip-compression (it sends a "Content-Encoding: gzip"-header), and that fopen can't cope with this, and I'm stuck with some binary data. I've tried using gzuncompress() on the returned data, but that resulted in an error (not valid gzip-data). First of all; shouldn't perhaps fopen support decompression of gzip-compressed http data? That is, is there any reason why it's not supported ? ;) Second; how do I decompress that data? I've been reading the manual and doing some google-searches, but I can't seem to find an answer anywhere. -- Trond Arve Nordheim - "This message is ROT13-encrypted twice for extra security."