Well I bumped my copy of WWW::Mech from 1.50 (I think it was) to 1.60. (Still running 1.58 on my sandbox machine). Reran the tests and got the same error. Before I wrote to SoPW, I had searched the perldoc for both the WWW::Mech and LWP modules for a debug option; but to no avail. Can you clue me in please on how to set such an animal?