my oh my i am Such a newbie at this. in fact this weekend is my crash course in perl .. literally the first time i've even looked at the stuff. basically i'm trying to pass form info to an executable that resides on a secure server outside of the clients firewall. from within the secure servers network i have no problem conneting via https, however from the clients server a connection is not being made. oh and isn't this typical.. due monday evening! grrrr. argh.. boo hoo.. please help.

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In reply to Post to https from behind firewall by perlsgerl

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