Sockets problems in php

I created several rpc tcp servers in perl. The pearl clients work fine, and sending a message to the server in php works. The problem happens after the perl server replies ( I have seen the actual reply through monitoring the server ). The php script hangs on freads and fgets. I turned off blocking and looped several times while throwing in a sleep interval in between , but this was still to no avail. Any ideas out there, or has anyone found this to be a bug? I might try this on Linux tomorrow to eliminate any other possibilities, but any ideas to save me some time would greatly be appreciated. Also, I tried a simple socket-http get on a web page and it worked ( Also works with host header sites, which fopen doesn't seem to work with). Buenos Noches zzZ! ****************************************** * Che Gonzalez [mailto:che@atlantic.net] * * Atlantic.net * * Manager of Web Development/ * * Network Administrator * * MCSE+I / CCNA / SCO ACE * ******************************************