On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 eastcoastcoder / gmail.com wrote: > Excellent, most appreciated. > > Forgive my RFC ignorance, but is the same string appended to the URL > for GETs and sent as the bod for POST's? Or is there a difference in > the encoding somehow? it certainly is different. google around for more info. you'll need to use something like http-access2 for posting form data. check out my rubyforge script (on rubyforge no less) for a pretty complete example of posting including file uploads and redirects. regards. -a -- judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. - h.h. the 14th dali lama