Hi there fellas, it's been awhile for me! I have and this is actually the second time I've run into this issue, a /sockread obstacle where a script can't read the full page. So as an example I'm going to test this on drudgereport.com and we'll see what happens.

Code:
alias testgo.open {
  sockopen testgo drudgereport.com 80
}
on 1:sockopen:testgo:{
  var %a = .sockwrite -n testgo 
  %a GET / HTTP/1.0
  %a Accept: */*
  %a Referer: http://www.drudgereport.com/
  %a Accept-Language: en-us
  %a UA-CPU: x86
  %a Accept-Encoding: No Compression
  %a Connection: Keep-Alive
  %a Host: drudgereport.com
  %a $crlf
}
on 1:sockread:testgo:{
  if ($sockerr > 0) return
  :nextread
  sockread %temp
  if ($sockbr == 0) { 
    sockclose testgo
    echo $chr(160)
    return 
  }
  if (%temp == $null) %temp = -
  echo 4 %temp
  goto nextread
}


You'll note that this last sockread code is pretty much straight out of the mIRC faq guide, even the goto is the same.

So we can run this with /testgo.open. We get a number of lines of html back correctly, but we don't get the whole page. It tends to stop around the first story headline. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.