Morten,
    the reason for this is outlined here: http://us2.php.net/fread.
Network streams are only made available to fread() one packet at a
time. Doing a while loop is the recommended way of getting around
this.


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:44:43 +0100, Morten Pedersen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I'm attempting to download a webpage (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=erts), using the 
> following code
> 
>    $fp=fopen($quote_url,'rb');
>    $contents=fread($fp,500000);
>    fclose($fp);
> 
> but it only downloads part of the webpage (1460 bytes to be exact). Putting the 
> fread inside a while loop and reading until 0 bytes read eventually gets the entire 
> page. Anyone know the reason for this, and how to fix it?
> 
> 


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