fopen GB2312 encoding problem

[Sadie]

Hi,

I am trying to read in a url which is encoded in GB2312 (http://
top.baidu.com/winkvane.html). I have tried other pages with this
encoding and each time I get a connection time out error. It seems
that fopen cannot open a webpage in GB2312. Is there a way around
this? Has anyone else had this sort of problem?

Here is an example with some simple code (using PHP5):

$file = fopen("http://top.baidu.com/winkvane.html", "r") or
exit("Unable to open file!");

while(!feof($fi le))
{
echo fgets($file). "<br />";
}
fclose($file);

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.
Sadie