pulling content from a URL

["Nicholas W. Miller" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm writing a script that needs to put the contents of an external URL 
into a variable.  I need to include some sort of error checking that 
will kill this request if for some reason the URL request hangs for 
more then 15 seconds.  In researching this, I think the correct 
function to use is fsockopen, but I can't seem to get it to work.  Can 
someone verify if fsockopen is the best way to grab an external URL, 
but kill the request if it hangs for a certain amount of time ... and 
if so, show me some sample code on how to place this URL's contents 
into a variable that I can then parse.  The URL will be hard coded into 
the script, so I don't need a lot of error checking to insure correct 
URL format, etc.

Thanks,

Nicholas Miller
Intercast Media, Inc.
229 19th Ave.  Suite 4
San Francisco, CA  94121
415-379-9500
415-520-9501 (fax)
nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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