I have installed the cURL module on windows, and now I'm ready to try it out. I can get this code to work, <? $ch = curl_init ("http://www.php.net/"); $fp = fopen ("php_homepage.txt", "w"); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_exec ($ch); curl_close ($ch); fclose ($fp); ?> but I am now trying to make a connection in https:// I need the windows equivilant to this Unix code: curl -d "birthyear=1905&press=OK" www.hotmail.com/when/junk.cgi to be able to post to encrypted connections. Can anyone pelase help? Zack