Receiving a text stream

I am not sure about this topic, so my question may refect this lack of knowledge. I have an application where I send a credit card request to a credit card processor. They return the information in a POST stream and I open a socket and read the information into a variable. This works very well. Now I want to switch positions. I would like to send a stream of text data to a surfer (e.g. their IP) and I would like to have them get the data when they are in a program like Delphi or Visual Basic so that they can use it within their program. How does on "get" the data when they are in a browser like EI or Netscape? Does it have to be written to a file first? Todd -- Todd Cary Ariste Software todd@aristesoftware.com