diff --git a/mythtv/libs/libmythbase/mythdownloadmanager.cpp b/mythtv/libs/libmythbase/mythdownloadmanager.cpp
index 2ad120ccabd..cb515db5c28 100644
--- a/mythtv/libs/libmythbase/mythdownloadmanager.cpp
+++ b/mythtv/libs/libmythbase/mythdownloadmanager.cpp
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include <QDir>
 #include <QNetworkCookieJar>
 #include <QAuthenticator>
+#include <QTextStream>
 
 #include "stdlib.h"
 
@@ -1324,6 +1325,55 @@ QDateTime MythDownloadManager::GetLastModified(const QString &url)
     return result;
 }
 
+class MythCookieJar : public QNetworkCookieJar
+{
+  public:
+    void load(const QString &filename);
+    void save(const QString &filename);
+};
+
+void MythCookieJar::load(const QString &filename)
+{
+    QList<QNetworkCookie> cookieList;
+    QTextStream stream((QString *)&filename, QIODevice::ReadOnly);
+    while (!stream.atEnd())
+    {
+        QString cookie = stream.readLine();
+        cookieList << QNetworkCookie::parseCookies(cookie.toLocal8Bit());
+    }
+    
+    setAllCookies(cookieList);
+}
+
+void MythCookieJar::save(const QString &filename)
+{
+    QList<QNetworkCookie> cookieList = allCookies();
+    QTextStream stream((QString *)&filename, QIODevice::WriteOnly);
+
+    for (QList<QNetworkCookie>::iterator it = cookieList.begin();
+         it != cookieList.end(); ++it)
+    {
+        stream << (*it).toRawForm() << endl;
+    }
+}
+
+
+void MythDownloadManager::loadCookieJar(const QString &filename)
+{
+    MythCookieJar *jar = new MythCookieJar;
+    jar->load(filename);
+    m_manager->setCookieJar(jar);
+}
+
+void MythDownloadManager::saveCookieJar(const QString &filename)
+{
+    if (!m_manager->cookieJar())
+        return;
+
+    MythCookieJar *jar = static_cast<MythCookieJar *>(m_manager->cookieJar());
+    jar->save(filename);
+}
+
 QString MythDownloadManager::getHeader(const QNetworkCacheMetaData &cacheData,
                                        const QString& header)
 {
diff --git a/mythtv/libs/libmythbase/mythdownloadmanager.h b/mythtv/libs/libmythbase/mythdownloadmanager.h
index 450c03a594b..fcbe79eaad0 100644
--- a/mythtv/libs/libmythbase/mythdownloadmanager.h
+++ b/mythtv/libs/libmythbase/mythdownloadmanager.h
@@ -68,8 +68,11 @@ class MBASE_PUBLIC MythDownloadManager : public QObject, public MThread
     void removeListener(QObject *caller);
     QDateTime GetLastModified(const QString &url);
 
+    void loadCookieJar(const QString &filename);
+    void saveCookieJar(const QString &filename);
     QNetworkCookieJar *getCookieJar(void) { return m_manager->cookieJar(); }
     void setCookieJar(QNetworkCookieJar *cookieJar) { m_manager->setCookieJar(cookieJar); }
+
     QString getHeader(const QUrl &url, const QString &header) { return getHeader(m_manager->cache()->metaData(url), header); }
     QString getHeader(const QNetworkCacheMetaData &cacheData, const QString &header);
 
diff --git a/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/datadirect.cpp b/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/datadirect.cpp
index 5101018b7c2..19f0b8e8cd0 100644
--- a/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/datadirect.cpp
+++ b/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/datadirect.cpp
@@ -965,7 +965,6 @@ void DataDirectProcessor::DataDirectProgramUpdate(void)
 void authenticationCallback(QNetworkReply *reply, QAuthenticator *auth,
                             void *arg)
 {
-    LOG(VB_GENERAL, LOG_DEBUG, "main callback");
     if (!arg)
         return;
 
@@ -976,7 +975,6 @@ void authenticationCallback(QNetworkReply *reply, QAuthenticator *auth,
 void DataDirectProcessor::authenticationCallback(QNetworkReply *reply,
                                                  QAuthenticator *auth)
 {
-    LOG(VB_GENERAL, LOG_DEBUG, "class callback");
     (void)reply;
     auth->setUser(GetUserID());
     auth->setPassword(GetPassword());
@@ -1844,56 +1842,32 @@ bool DataDirectProcessor::Post(QString url, const PostList &list,
                                QString documentFile,
                                QString inCookieFile, QString outCookieFile)
 {
-    QString dfile = QString("'%1' ").arg(documentFile);
-    QString command = "wget ";
+    MythDownloadManager *manager = GetMythDownloadManager();
 
     if (!inCookieFile.isEmpty())
-        command += QString("--load-cookies=%1 ").arg(inCookieFile);
+        manager->loadCookieJar(inCookieFile);
 
-    if (!outCookieFile.isEmpty())
-    {
-        command += "--keep-session-cookies ";
-        command += QString("--save-cookies=%1 ").arg(outCookieFile);
-    }
-
-    QString post_data = "";
+    QByteArray postdata;
     for (uint i = 0; i < list.size(); i++)
     {
-        post_data += ((i) ? "&" : "") + list[i].key + "=";
-        post_data += html_escape(list[i].value);
+        postdata += ((i) ? "&" : "") + list[i].key + "=";
+        postdata += html_escape(list[i].value);
     }
 
-    if (post_data.length())
-        command += "--post-data='" + post_data + "' ";
-
-    command += url;
-    command += " ";
-
-    {
-        QMutexLocker locker(&user_agent_lock);
-        command += QString("--user-agent='%1' ").arg(user_agent);
-    }
-
-    command += "--output-document=";
-    command += (documentFile.isEmpty()) ? "- " : dfile;
-
-#ifdef USING_MINGW
-    command.replace("'", "\"");
-#endif
-
-    if (SHOW_WGET_OUTPUT)
-        LOG(VB_GENERAL, LOG_DEBUG, LOC + "command: " + command);
-    else
-    {
-        command += (documentFile.isEmpty()) ? "&> " : "2> ";
-        command += "/dev/null ";
-    }
+    if (!manager->post(url, &postdata))
+        return false;
 
-    myth_system(command);
+    if (!outCookieFile.isEmpty())
+        manager->saveCookieJar(outCookieFile);
 
     if (documentFile.isEmpty())
         return true;
 
+    QFile file(documentFile);
+    file.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly);
+    file.write(postdata);
+    file.close();
+
     QFileInfo fi(documentFile);
     return fi.size();
 }