Did you ever solve this? I have just run into the ideanitcal issue. I'm just using plain php and am doing some loading of a service and so have a simple script that does: 1. fsockopen 2. fwrite (the HTTP request) 3. fread (the response) 4. fclose (sadly it doesn't seem possible to reuse the open socket for a second request/response :-( ) and then cycles around to read the resource a numbeby iainh - Php-fpm Mailing List - English