err ? the broswer has nothing to do with the problem, a socket is a socket and you are responsible for what you read and what you write to it: what you get from the socket is the same as what the browser get and what OP's script get, he was using $nohtml for a reason :p.
I also think that rewritting every code that are posted on this website is not necessary, giving advice is better than giving a whole new code and saying "use it", users can't learn that way. You also cannot do that on large script, which is why giving advice on the methods used (sockmark for example) is preferable imo :)