You probably need to escape the double-quotes in $data. Exec calls
generally kick off /bin/sh to run the command, and that will be eating
your quotes.

    i.e. <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding....etc

possibly even \\ in case PHP takes one out.

Ralph Mitchell

John Eagle wrote:

> I send this command via PHP:
> exec ("$curl -d $data --header 'Content-Type:
> text/xml' $host ", $return_string);
>
> I am sending in $data somthing like:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>etc.
> but the server sees:
> <?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1?>etc..
>
> In other words I seem to have lost the "".
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks John
>
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