note 14663 added to function.fopen.php

if you get the "warning - success" error with fopen() - meaning something was opened but not what was expected - and you are sure the page exists, then it may be a COOKIE is being sent back, which PHP can't handle (or at least, fopen() can't). A hack to get the URL (e.g. "MYURL") is the following command, assuming you have lynx on your system: exec("lynx -accept_all_cookies -dump 'MYURL',$result); This will give you the page as an array of lines in $result. If you want, implode() the result to get a single variable with all the text: $result = implode('',$result); Do make sure to make any variables you pass to the URL safe, by using, e.g. with $MYURL: $URL = escapeshellarg("$MYURL"); exec("lynx -accept_all_cookies -dump $URL,$result); Hope this helps! http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php