PHP Sockets and XML problem

[hanwellchris]

I have an application which is using PHP to talk to a socket on a service implemented in Delphi. The PHP requests data from the delphi service which is monitoring some third party real time data. The command protocol is simple, a command string is passed by PHP to the service, and it returns an XML formatted set of data.

 

I first implemented this a year ago, under PHP 5 and apache 2, and it worked fine, but I have recently setup a new system using exactly the same tools and versions and found that any XML fomatted data that I send across the socket is having its tags removed, resulting in just the data items all concatenated together.

 

I have a service test harness also written in Delphi which is successfully retrieving the entire XML string, so I am confident that it is being sent to the socket OK. It seems that the PHP socket implementation is arbitrarily stripping out the tags.

 

I can see the string as it is received by the PHP and it does not have any tags in it!!! I am using fsocketopen, and fgets (not fgetss) to read the data.

 

I am pulling my hair out with this one, and I dont have much to spare!

 

Does anyone have any ideas??

 

Thanks

 

Chris