On Wednesday 24 January 2001 01:25, Richard Lynch wrote:
> > I wonder myself, which method is better to fetch a web page:
> >
> >    $file = fopen($url, "r");
> >    $page = fread($file, 50000);
> >
> > or
> >
> >    $file = join('', file($url));
>
> Probably about the same either way...

Perhaps. In an earlier version of PHP I had a problem where the above 
code (fopen...) read *more* than the page length. I.e. the page was e.g. 
20k big and the fread appended ~5k of junk to it.

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