fopen() timing issue 4.3.0 vs 4.3.8

[ranman]

The following code works on php4.3.0, in that the whole image is retrieved. In php4.3.8 the image is only 1/3rd retrieved. Seems like the connection is terminating prematurely. I remember having a similar problem when fetching pages from other websites so I have always set the php ver to 4.3.0 without getting to the true answer. Now I need to. Here is the same code being used. Any ideas.

   ##-- Get Image file from Port 80 --##
   $fp = fopen($imgURL, "r");

   if ( !$fp )
   continue;

   $imageFile = fread ($fp, 3000000);
   fclose($fp);

Thanks.

[ranman]

while(!feof($fp))
$imageFile = $imageFile . fread($fp, 1024);