fopen and fread - example not working!

edesigns

I've had a couple posts on here without response, so I'm gonna try one more - different problem though.

I'm trying to pull the code from another page on one of our other servers into it. It works fine if i try to pull something like google.com, but this one page won't seem to come all the way in.

Here's the example:
http://newsite.edshosting.net/try.php?do=win

Should pull all the HTML from this page:
http://admin.edshosting.net:8080/psoft/servlet/psoft.hsphere.CP?action=plan_compare&template_name=misc/compare_way.html

But it stops itself short for some odd reason. I've set the bytes to read to 200k, which is well over the page bytes.

here's the code

<?php
if ($_GET['do'] == 'win')
{
	$hpath = "http://admin.edshosting.net:8080/psoft/servlet/psoft.hsphere.CP?action=plan_compare&template_name=misc/compare_way.html";
	$fsize = 200000;
	$open = fopen($hpath, "r");
	$read = fread($open,$fsize);
	fclose($open);
}
?>
<?php echo $read; ?>

jpmoriarty

from fread() :

When reading from network streams or pipes, such as those returned when reading remote files or from popen() and proc_open(), reading will stop after a packet is available. This means that you should collect the data together in chunks as shown in the example below.
<?php
$handle = fopen("http://www.example.com/", "rb");
$contents = "";
do {
   $data = fread($handle, 8192);
   if (strlen($data) == 0) {
       break;
   }
   $contents .= $data;
} while (true);
fclose($handle);
?> 

swr

[edit]What follows is pretty much the same as what jpmoriarty said.[/edit]

The fread() call will read "up to" the number of bytes you have specified, but there is no guarantee that it will read that many, even if the data exists. This is especially true of network streams. Bottom line is, you need to use a while loop.

Where you have this:

$read = fread($open,$fsize);

Change it to this:

$read = '';
while (!feof($open)) {
    $read .= fread($open, 1024);
}

Also, you may want to change the "r" in the fopen call to "rb".

edesigns

wow, i had figured it had something to do with the stream of data not completing before fread decided it was done.

excellent - thank you two so much for the elegant answer!