diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..48ede65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+0.1 - 2014-07-28
+    First release of wie
+
+0.2 - 2014-07-31
+    Changed 'shell_exec(curl -s $URL)' to PHP5 cURL function
+    Added HISTORY file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bd35cfa..21274f9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ Or run it with 'php wie.php'. To display the help, type:
 
     ./wie.php --help
 
+## Requirements ##
+The script requires PHP5 and the PHP5 cURL module (php5-curl on Debian systems).
+
 ## Thanks ##
 Many thanks goes to flinga who came up with the idea for this script, please see
 the THANKS file for more information.
diff --git a/wie.php b/wie.php
index c4dacaa..84dce4c 100755
--- a/wie.php
+++ b/wie.php
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ $defaultLang = "en"; // default language
 $progName = $argv[0];
 function usage()
 {
-    print "Wikipedia ingress extractor (wie), version 0.1\n";
+    print "Wikipedia ingress extractor (wie), version 0.2\n";
     print "Usage: $GLOBALS[progName] [--lang=sv] article\n";
     print "Default language if none specified is $GLOBALS[defaultLang].\n";
     print "Remember to quote the article if there's more than one word,\n";
@@ -58,7 +58,14 @@ else
 $article = ucwords($article); // uppercase article
 $article = preg_replace("/\s/", "_" ,$article); // make spaces to underscore
 $url = "http://$lang.wikipedia.org/wiki/$article"; 
-$data = shell_exec("curl -s $url"); // retrive the page
+
+// get the wiki page
+$ch = curl_init("$url");
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+$data = curl_exec($ch);
+curl_close($ch);
+
 preg_match("/\<p\>(.*)\<\/p\>/", $data, $match); // fetch text inside first <p>
 
 // check is we had a match