> print "Content-type: image/gif\n\n"; The content type tells the browser what kind of data is being sent. IE will often ignore this and go by the file extension, but that doesn't mean we should willy-nilly ignore the protocol and hope everything works magically. Are you sure you want to write a tutorial? Will this tutorial be reviewed by others before being published to hundreds of trusting, unsuspecting newbies? -Hao ==== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ==== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-webcgi-request@macperl.org