Hi folks,

look at the following code:
<?php
$url = "http://192.168.2.40:80/give/me/that/data?some=param";
$res = "";
$maxread = 4096;
$fp = fopen($url, "r");
if ($fp > 0)
{
	while (!feof($fp))
	{
		$res .= fread($fp, $maxread);
	}
	fclose($fp);
} else
{
	die("err: no socket connection to dispatcher");
}
echo strlen($res) . '<hr>' . $res;
?>

This code should read the result of a query to a server application, but it does not quite - it reads most, but not all data. The server sends (in my test scenario) 115310 bytes, but PHP receives only about 95000. Ok, the server application is self-written, but both IE 5 and NN 4.7 read all the results, but not this PHP script - it terminates too early. I could not figure out why.

If the server waits for say half a second after the last send() until it terminates the connection, PHP reads all the data (via local fast ethernet), so there seems to be a synchronization issue. Since I do not know how the browsers do their reads, I have no good idea on how one might change the PHP code to get this stuff working.

Best regards

Michael Woecherl