Using PHP 3.0.12, Apache 1.3.9 on Linux / Alpha

A script such as :

<?
$lines = file ("htttp://www.altavista.com");
for ($i = 0; $i < count ($lines); $i++) {
        print $lines[$i];
}
?>

shocks on execution with a :

   Warning: Invalid URL specified, http://www.altavista.com in
   /home/web/nnx/services/listes/listesman/tliste.phtml on line 3

I tried as a workaround to use the Snoopy class found on http://www.phpinsider.com/php/code/, without much further success

When trying to fetch the same page, it shocks on line 72, which reads :

                $URI_PARTS = parse_url($URI);

So I strongly suspect a probleme with the internal function that parses URL...