MATLAB: Urlread retrieves data but webread retrieves error

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I'd like to retrieve data from a .csv generated by a website. urlread works, but is not recommended. webread returns a http error message. Anyone know what feature of webread causes different behavior than urlread? Alternatively, is there a script to just download the file (e.g. web.m but without the interactive browser)?
>> urlread('https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb_query.cgi?com_orbit_class=JFC;table_format=CSV;c_fields=AbAc;&query=1')
ans =
      'spkid,full_name
       1000099,"    8P/Tuttle"
       1000061,"   96P/Machholz 1"
       1000047,"  126P/IRAS"
       1000154,"  262P/McNaught-Russell"
       1003435,"  333P/LINEAR"
       1002585,"  342P/SOHO"
       1001439,"     P/1999 J6 (SOHO)"
       1001843,"     C/2002 R5 (SOHO)"
       1001852,"     P/2002 S7 (SOHO)"
       1002413,"     P/2006 R1 (Siding Spring)"
       1003317,"     P/2008 Y12 (SOHO)"
       1003064,"     P/2010 D2 (WISE)"
       1003231,"     P/2013 AL76 (Catalina)"
       1003377,"     C/2015 D1 (SOHO)"
       '
>> webread('https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb_query.cgi?com_orbit_class=JFC;table_format=CSV;c_fields=AbAc;&query=1')
ans =
<!DOCTYPE html
  PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US">
<head>
<title>ERROR</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#FF0000" vlink="#0000FF">
<h2>Error Condition</h2>
</body>
</html>

Best Answer

webread apparently doesn't like the semicolon delimiter between fields. I changed the semicolons to ampersands and it works.
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