The example below sometimes hangs my PHP script because of my slow Internet connection:

<?php
$fp = fopen ( 'http://www.php.net/', 'r' );
while ( !feof($fp) )
  $data .= fgets ( $fp, 1024 );
fclose ( $fp );
?>

The fgets function is the problem. There is no way to speficy a timeout limit for this function. I think it's necessary in some cases. It's very anyoing when the PHP script just hangs. A web browser like Netscape tries to download the same document many times. That's a very good solution. But it's not possible to do the same in PHP at the moment. I would be pleased if you could fix this. Maybe by let the programmer specify a optional third timeout parameter to the fgets function.