Al wrote: > Hi Richard, thanks for the help. > > Note I have the timeout set for 1 microsec, have tried several values, eg, > 100ms, 1 sec, etc. I even used a 4mb file and it did nothing. > > It seems as if stream_set_timeout() does nothing. > > Note in socket_get_status(), [timed_out] => is always false. v timed_out ^ / \ / \ Lost data because your time-out expired Possibly you have such a good connection, it never times out. Try connection to something that's not there -- Like: $URL_full = 'http://example.com'; -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php