I open a socket to a nntp server and connect. Everything works fine. I do a socket_recv or socket_read and get a line saying "200 news.rit.edu DNEWS 5.7b1, S1, posting OK". Then when I try to recv again or read again it freezes. If I add PHP_NORMAL_READ opt to socket_read it gives me "Warning: socket_read() [function.socket-read]: unable to read from socket [0]: The operation completed successfully. ". The code is below. Thanks in advance. [code] $socket = socket_create(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,SOL_TCP); if(!$socket) { die("Socket Creation failed"); } $result = socket_connect($socket,"news.rit.edu",119); if(!$result) { die("Connection failed"); } $buffer = socket_read($socket,255); echo $buffer; $buffer = socket_read($socket,255,PHP_NORMAL_READ); echo $buffer; socket_close($socket); [/code]