RE: [PHP] cURL in an exec() . more

[snip] As a matter of fact, when viewing the source (which should display properly if word wrap is off in Notepad) the line appears to be broken up. I have an idea...write the line to a file then open the file and get the line for exec()...blabbering now, must go... [/snip] I have fixed many things and had many great suggestions pointed my way, I appreciate all of it! So to state the problem in the light of this new day here is what I have; From the command line this works perfectly; curl -d "name=myname&password=mypassword&btnsubmit=submit" -s -o cdrlist.html https://theserver.com/download/list.html Using exec() (or shell_exec(), or others in the family) like this; exec("curl -d \"name=myname&password=mypassword&btnsubmit=submit\" -s -o cdrlist.html https://theserver.com/download/list.html"); does not work. I have made sure that the output of the exec() is all on one line through many tests. I have placed the command line arguements in variables and re-done the exec() call as many ways as I can think of. Is anyone aware of any problems with exec() that may be causing this behavior? Any insight would be grandly appreciated. Thanks! Jay