It was a mistake while copying the code. I had '\n' only. On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:31:55 +0530 wrote >Phani Raju wrote: > I am trying to open a blocking stream using fsockopen. I want to write and read XML input/output from a server. After opening the steam I will send a XML request to server using the stream. Once this request is sent, I want to keep listening on the port indefinitely. > > I tried using blocking stream for this with a huge timeout. But had no success as it was not waiting for such a long period. > > Code: > $parser = xml_parser_create("UTF-8"); > if($stream = @fsockopen($host, $port, $errorno, $errorstr, $timeout)) { > stream_set_blocking($stream, 1); > stream_set_timeout($stream, TIMEOUT); > fwrite($stream, $xml."n"); fwrite($stream, $xml."n") should probably be fwrite($stream, $xml."\n") ?