Hi

Thanks for the link. To quote (for future monk reference):

Also for those that that have not figured this out already:  All
response headers prefixed with "Client-" are things that LWP adds by
itself.  It is not something that the server actually sent as a
header.

So looks like the 'error' is just a header which LWP tags on to the response (it cant verify that the SSL certificate is genuine, only that there is one (ie for all LWP knows, the certificate proporting to be from Microsoft or whatever may not actually be) - this is my interpretation - it may not be right). Anyway, all this leaves me still scratching my head wondering why the script doesnt work; for testing I pulled all the field entries from the real web page and used those values in the script. Oh well back to the drawing board.

Thanks

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