SSL Connection with cURL

Hi NG, i want to establish an SSL connection with cURL. I used two different scripts, 1) $URL="ssl.server.com/path/file.ext"; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://$URL"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS , "$data"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $result = curl_exec($ch); $x = curl_errno($ch); print("$x<br>$result"); curl_close ($ch); and get exitcode 1 2) function cURL ($URL, $options="") { $command="/usr/local/bin/curl"; $options.=" --stderr"; $execstring=escapeshellcmd($command." ".$URL." ".$options); exec($execstring, $stdout, $errorcode); $output = implode ("\n", $stdout); if ($errorcode<>0) $output=""; return $output; } $URL="https://ssl.server.com/path/file.ext"; $options=" -d $data"; $data = cURL ($URL, $options); and get exitcode 2 Why i get two different exitcodes and why i get in the second version exitcode 2? Can anyone help me to solve this problem? -- Roman