note 33020 deleted from function.fread by wez

Note Submitter: Bob Silva ---- [ Editor's Note: This was done to prevent streams from aggresively blocking. Aggresive blocking is most obvious when using UDP streams and a script expects a single packet of unknown length. It's important to note that the documented functionality of the function has not changed. It reads UP TO 'length' bytes. This is NOT to say that it will always read 'length' bytes. ] As of 4.3.2, the functionality of fread has changed in regards to sockets and url wrappers. You can no longer read $length bytes from the file pointer. There is a note in the documentation above which shows you what you have to do. Even though I read that, it didnt click because who would think that a long time PHP function like this would change in functionality and the only indication is a Note: in the docs. When fread()'ing a network connection, you must loop the fread() to read in all the data one packet at a time. Forcing PHP scripts to wrap this sort of low-level programming around what was previously a perfectly useful high-level function defeats the whole purpose of a scripting language and was irresponsible to say the least.