read file to variable given encoded url

Apologies if this has been answered before...

I am trying to read the contents of a text file using php. . I know the location of the file as an encoded form post to a perl script. My dumb vendor will not reveal the path to my own log files for the script we have purchased from them! Anyway, I tried the following unsuccessfully:

<?PHP

$file = "http://congress.nw.dc.us/cgi-bin/usagelogs.pl?download=1&dir=lchr&logfile=senders030100.txt&textfile=%20Text%20File%28s%29%20";

$file_content = fread(fopen($file, "r"), filesize($file));
echo "$file_content";

?>

the url above will trigger the download messagebox in IE when entered into the browser... Any ideas on how to fix this?

Many thanks!

I think once you run "usagelogs.pl".this program will return a log-file in downloadable mode.

You should contact your vendor for clarifying this...



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