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Can someone explain "header" to me? Does it mean you can send HTTP headers with any script if you are loading another document? There are two possibilities that interest me: 1. Sending username and password for authorisation in a protected area. This of course is done by browsers when they get a 401 and ask the user for their username and password in a dialog box. I would like to ask them for the data in a form then send it to the page in question. 2. Passing in variables to a script without specifying them as part of the URL. Like a form that uses POST to submit variables to a script without them being displayed in the URL when the page loads. -- ======================================================================= Patrick Dunford, Christchurch, NZ - http://pdunford.godzone.net.nz/ If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men. -- 1 Corinthians 15:19 http://www.heartlight.org/cgi-shl/todaysverse.cgi?day=20010411 ======================================================================= Created by Mail2Sig - http://pdunford.godzone.net.nz/software/mail2sig/