PHP socket programming transferred image is corrupted

I have a PHP开发者_StackOverflow socket client which transfer a image (BMP) to the socket server

$host="127.0.0.1" ;
$port=8000;
$timeout=30;
$socket=fsockopen($host,$port,$errnum,$errstr,$timeout) ;


$bmp=file_get_contents("C:/Image.bmp");
$bytesWritten = fwrite($socket, $bmp);
fclose($socket);

The transferred image is always corrupted and halfly streamed and giving the error message

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded 

im transferring from localhost to localhost ;) and i have a ASP.NET app which does the same thing in milliseconds ! so why not PHP? why it takes long time ?

i think there is some thing to do with file_get_contents which creates a large BLOB behalf of that is there a way to use a FileStream in PHP ?

any idea how to transfer the file without corrupting ?

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file_get_contents returns a string. I think you want to use fread instead.

Example:

$filename = "c:\\files\\somepic.gif";
$handle = fopen($filename, "rb");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);