Well my program is hundreds of lines code big so I'm not asking anyone to do anything for me - just to help me through this situation that has had me stumped for the past 3-4 days and this is my only resort is to ask someone to help... this is my first time on here and I'm asking a genuine question. I've never had to ask anyone for help before in the past 5 years that I've been programming in PERL. I've never dealt with sockets before so maybe sockets isnt the answer for this question - maybe just a simple HTTP header or something ... anyway I've posted my request in Seekers of Perl Wisdom..