After hours and hours trying to track this fscker down, thinking my Linux server was too limited, our router bugged, or the Funcom people.anarchy-online.com XML server still bugged, i only find out that the bug was actually a very very small mistake in main/14_Tools.php
So, getting socket read errors? Find the commented line, replace it with the one i put below. It's line 150 in the 0.5.2 tag release (revision 1640). The error still exists in all 14_Tools.php versions up to the latest (trunk/1673).
main/14_Tools.php// Offcourse we don't want to GET the whole url, we want the path!
// $in = "GET $url HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$in = "GET $get_url[path] HTTP/1.0\r\n";
And Bebot devs, please change this in future releases, thanks, and less then three!