function getURL($url,$post='') {

	$cookie = 'cookies.txt';
	$ch = curl_init() or die(curl_error());
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)");
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
	if($post!='') {
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
	}
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	$data = curl_exec($ch) or die(curl_error($ch));
	curl_close($ch);
	return $data;

}