This is definitely a bug. In php5.0 it takes around 8.4 seconds. On php-5.1 now it takes 1.2 seconds. That is only for the first connection. If you make a second fsockopen in the SAME script, it takes only 0.03 seconds. And the problem occurs only for ssl streams. These are the times for fsockopen on windows and linux: TCP: linux: 0.003 seconds windows: 0.003 seconds SSL: linux: 0.02 Windows: php-5.0: 8.2 seconds Windows: php-5.1: 1.2 seconds Thanks. George. -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php