Indeed this is what I opted to do after receiving the same suggestion from another. I've always use the CGI.pm module, but have always used it to extract data from forms using the param method. I had never used it to generate headers or html. I will certainly do so from now on since it seems to have solved my problem. Thanks! At 10:37 AM 6/7/01 -0700, Curtis Poe wrote: >This is an excellent reason to use CGI.pm: it's tough to mess up the headers: > >#!/usr/bin/perl -wT >use strict; >use CGI qw/:standard/; > >print header; Peter Cline Inet Developer New York Times Digital