[philip.j.fry]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

I could do it easily in java... grumble grumble...

As far as I can see, you can do it in a similar way as you can in Java, you just open a remote file and read it in, then do what you want with the data.

http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/appdocs/ph...ote-files.html

Originally Posted by punky

If you are feeling brave, you can use PHP sockets.

Bit of an overkill for Mr LM but just what I was looking for