Hi,

I do this for POSTs

    xmlVal = "Whatever=value";
    xmlHttp.open("POST", 'my_prog.pl', true);
    xmlHttp.setRequestHeader( 
        "Content-Type", 
        "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
    xmlHttp.send(xmlVal);
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This allows the POST headers to be read.

J.C.