Unzipping a file created by Zip library

[eluser]taewoo[/eluser]
Hi all.
I've written app that generates a zip file of json file (the file is HUGE, thus to save time d/l'ing) that another server downloads, unzip, and reads.

The server that downloads the zip has this code:

Code:

function saveRemoteFile($remote_file, $local_file)
{
    $handle = @fopen($remote_file, "r");
    if(!$handle)
    {
        throw new Exception("Can't retrieve $remote_file");
    }
    
    $out_handle = fopen($local_file, "w+");
    if(!$out_handle)
    {
        throw new Exception("Can't open $local_file for write");
    }
    
    while (!feof($handle))
    {
        $binary_line=fread($handle, 8192);
        fwrite($out_handle, $binary_line, 8192);
    }
    
    fclose($handle);
    fclose($out_handle);
}

This is the helper function i've written... and this doesn't seem to work in a sense that it's padding the downloaded zip file with erroneous characters. If i run "unzip data.zip", the command line error I get is

Code:

Archive:  data.zip
warning [data.zip]:  265 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
  (attempting to process anyway)
  inflating: data.txt

If I try to unzip this file with PHP:

Code:

$zip = zip_open("data.zip");
if (is_resource($zip)) {
  echo "OK";
  while ($zip_entry = zip_read($zip)) {
    echo $zip_entry."\n";
    if (zip_entry_open($zip, $zip_entry, "r")) {
      $buf = zip_entry_read($zip_entry, zip_entry_filesize($zip_entry));
      echo $buf;
      zip_entry_close($zip_entry);
    }
  }
  zip_close($zip);
}

.... the WHILE loop does not execute.

If I do a "wget" to retrieve the file, i don't have any problems, which concludes me to think that it's fwrite that's causing the problem.

Any thoughts on this?