i am trying to setup a script that will accept POST replies and write them into a text file. i can get it to work with the GET action but the website that is sending the info is using POST and cannot cahnge it, at the moment i have, 

sub smsreply {

$smsreply = 'd:\inetpub\wwwroot\cgi-bin\classads\test';


{ local ($buffer, @pairs, $pair, $name, $value, %FORM)}; 

# Read in text 

$ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;

if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq "POST") { read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CON
+TENT_LENGTH'}); } 

else { $buffer = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}; } 

# Split information into name/value pairs 

@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer); 

foreach $pair (@pairs) { ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair); $value =
+~ tr/+/ /;

$postFields{ "$name" } = $value;

$from = $postFields{ "from" };
$msg = $postFields{ "text" };
$msgid = $postFields{ "msgid" };

$msg =~ s/%(..)/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;

open (SMSREPLY, ">>$smsreply/$msgid.txt");
print SMSREPLY "\n$from $msg $msgid";
close SMSREPLY;
  }


}

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any help will be appreciated Michael I have now got the script working but i neet to make it retuen a HTTP 200 status back to the server that calls the script once it has executed. I cannot find any way to do this. Please help. Cheers

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