i don't have shell access on my shared hosting service, so i cannot
use "popen". at least, popen is not working for me here. am i doing
something wrong?

PHP Code:
<?php

$myhandle = pclose(popen("http://picnictoimpeach.us/remote.php5"));

?>

cUrl executes the external php ok, but this script waits until
execution of the external script

php Code:

<?php

print file_get_contents("http://picnictoimpeach.us/videos/
playlist.xml");

   $curl = curl_init();
   curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://picnictoimpeach.us/
remote.php5");
   curl_exec ($curl);
   curl_close ($curl);

?>

<?php

header ("content-type: text/xml");
print file_get_contents('http://picnictoimpeach.us/videos/
playlist.xml');

$fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://www.picnictoimpeach.us:80", $errno,
$errstr, 30);

fwrite($fp, "GET /remote.php5 HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: picnictoimpeach.us\r
\nAccept: */*\r\n\r\n");
fclose($fp);

?>