The idea you suggest is great. The only problem is I've already got the software finished. I was hoping to find a way to use a proxy to fetch the cam feeds. In other words say Alice wants to view Bob's web cam stream. Alice is already a registered member. She clicks on the link to see Bob's feed and it sends her request to Bob's web cam software which is on HIS computer. Something like http://Bob'sIPADDRESS:8888/SHOWCAM.HTML. Ok since Bob's webcam software will only allow access from my domain, Alice couldn't get the feed unless there was a way to make Bob's software think it was my Ip trying to connect and not Alice. Could I get a proxy to do this? Or maybe a Perl script like cgi-proxy? I tried cgi-proxy and it worked except it wouldn't load java applets. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Mark