Hi Jochem, JM> I would start by reading the relevant page: JM> http://php.net/socket_write JM> after reading that your first attempt will probably be this JM> (you may have complication is your using a multibyte charset): As I had said in my earlier post I had already read the php manual section for socket_write. JM> socket_write($client, $yresponse, strlen($yresponse)); JM> if that doesn't work, you will be looking at capturing the return value JM> of socket_write() in order to determine how many bytes were sent ... JM> this information will allow to to use a loop to call socket_write as many times JM> as is required to send all the data. hope that makes sense to you. I tried the strlen($yresponse) length option in socket_write and it did not matter if I set socket_write to anything larger than 1024. It appears that there is a buffer with a size of 1024 and in my case the length option would only be of use if the string I wanted to send was shorter than the size of the buffer. Rather than capturing the return value of socket_write I broke my test string into 2 chunks as the total was less than 2048 bytes. What I tried was // grab first 1024 bytes $buffer = substr($yresponse,0,1024); // send first 1024 bytes socket_write($client, $buffer); // replace first 1024 bytes with '' $buffer = substr_replace($yresponse,'',0,1024); //send the remainder of the string socket_write ($client, $buffer); What I found was that the first 1024 bytes was sent but I still never saw the second 1024 bytes. It seem the second socket_write is not happening. Am I on the right track here? >> >> >> >> >> Regards, >> Richard Luckhurst >> Product Development >> Exodus Systems - Sydney, Australia. >> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php