:-) .... yeah thanks for the expertise commentary tye.... it reminds me why i opted out of cgi and went to local gui's :-)

... upon further reflection as to what you said tye, one of my first thoughts was the option somewhere, which i saw, IIRC, to auto-prepend a www for you on sites that you accidently leave it off but need it. So.... a pseudo www is generated to access the page, but deeper into the security levels, the real strings must be exact matches. ...... zen and the art of Perl hacking ;-)