I added more info below and corrected the spelling of a word - very sorry to add more to your already full mailbox why will this script not submit the form - it does input data into the form - but not submit it. below is the script and then the html form.. thanks #!/usr/bin/php <?php $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "/temp/cookie.txt"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://192.168.10.10/?link=answer&l=c&qid=25AA98zRa";); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "link=answer&qid=25AA98zRa&.crumb=x88&textarea=here+ya+go&prev_ans_page=&e=0&submit1=Submit"); $result = curl_exec ($ch); curl_close ($ch); echo $result; ?> /////////////////////////////// below is the HTML form \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ <form action="/question/act;_lt=Aktsgb5HMZ0vBEUSHj_3I1YdzKIX;_lv=3" onsubmit="this.submit1.disabled=true;" method="post" name="template_form"> <input type="hidden" value="answer" name="link"/> <input type="hidden" value="25AA98zRa" name="qid"/> <input type="hidden" value="x88" name=".crumb"/> <input type="hidden" value="" name="textarea"/> <input type="hidden" value="" name="refer"/> <input type="hidden" value="" name="prev_ans_page"/> <input type="hidden" value="0" name="e"/> <input class="button" type="submit" name="submit1" value="Submit"/> </form> ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com