Title: about exec() / exec.php or url_fopen functions
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# about exec() / exec.php or url_fopen functions

 *  Resolved [Hyoch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hyoch/)
 * (@hyoch)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-exec-execphp-or-url_fopen-functions-2/)
 * Your plugin looks very popular and I want to use it on my website as well.
 * However, my hosting company disables all exec() / exec.php or url_fopen functions.
   The hosting company supports CURL as an alternative to url_fopen.
    I did not 
   find any answer from the forum. Do you mind telling me if your plugin uses exec()/
   exec.php or url_fopen functions or CURL?
 * Thank you for support!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-exec-execphp-or-url_fopen-functions-2/#post-4635337)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question!
 * TablePress does not use any of these functions directly. You are good to go 🙂
   (
   It does use the WordPress HTTP API for some import functions, and that should
   then use CURL by default.)
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/about-exec-execphp-or-url_fopen-functions-2/#post-4635337)
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