Irrespective of the GTK2 bit, PHP can connect just fine with other servers using sockets and stream wrappers and good ol' file_get_contents on a URL. Whether you can tweak those in useful ways at fast enough speeds to do what you want is more up to your skill than PHP's feature-set. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php