Please help, I'm driving mad !

Ok. That's simple. Here it is


$result = shell_exec("wget -q -O - 'http://www.google.com'");
echo $result;


That's supposed to print on the standard output the source code of the web page http://www.google.com. Note I can't use fopen function because I'm behind a firewall.

Well the script works from the terminal, but it doesn't work with apache !! It doesn't display anything !!

Thanks for help !!

Does the server you are trying this on have this ability enabled? I mean you could of course use something else which would wreak havok in that string and as such it may be disabled??

Have you tried using fsockopen through your proxy server (if you have one)??? I did that to pull in RSS feeds through a firewall.