Curl Error 52 Empty reply from server

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Published on 2009-12-17T20:41:02Z Indexed on 2010/06/17 15:03 UTC
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Hello

I have a cron job setup on one server to run a backup script in PHP that is hosted on another server. The command I've been using is formatted like this:

curl -sS http://www.example.com/backup.php

Lately I've been getting this error when the Cron runs

curl: (52) Empty reply from server

I have no idea what this means. If I go to the link directly in my browser the script runs fine and I get my little backup zip file.

Can anyone help?

Thanks, Paul

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