that's very odd, adding the -f switch worked just fine for me, and i used your site page to do it as well..

This is what I have (I omitted the on join part):

Code:
alias updatetopic {
  if ($me !isop $$1) { echo $color(info2) -at * Topic Update Error: You are not an op on $1 , halting topic update check. }
  else {
    var %s = $+(topicup.,$$1)
    if ($sock(%s)) { sockclose %s }
    ;- set the site name:
    hadd -m %s host trick-jumps.lv
    ;- Set the page you want to GET, using the
    ;- preceding forward slash '/' as shown below.
    hadd -m %s get /mirc/news.php
    hadd -m %s read $false
    sockopen %s $hget(%s,host) 80
  }
}
on *:sockopen:topicup.*: {
  if ($sockerr) { echo $color(info2) -at * Socket Open ERROR: $sock(%s).wsmsg | return }
  sockwrite -nt $sockname GET $hget($sockname,get) HTTP/1.1
  sockwrite -nt $sockname Host: $hget($sockname,host)
  sockwrite -nt $sockname Accept-Language: en-us
  sockwrite -nt $sockname User-Agent: Mozilla/??
  sockwrite -nt $sockname $+(Connection: close,$str($crlf,2))
}
on *:sockread:topicup.*: {
  var %t, %s = $sockname, %c = $gettok(%s,2,46)
  sockread -f %t
  if ($sockerr) { echo $color(info2) -at * Socket Read ERROR: $sock(%s).wsmsg | return }
  if (%t == $null) { hadd -m %s read $true }
  if (($hget(%s,read)) && (%t != $null)) {
    if ($chan(%c).topic != %t) { topic %c %t }
  }
}


ran the command manually:

Code:
/updatetopic #channel


and it worked just fine:

Code:
[03:33 00] * Tw|tch sets mode: +o Smeagol
[03:33 33] * Smeagol changes topic to 'News: I am the news'

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