cool ed, simplicity is best - clever

thanks

eugenie

$blah = file("http://www.domain.com/index.html")

just tells the script to download the file (in the process of course it sends the data to that server.. about to come to that).

the

?arg=blah

arg is like username=
and blah would be the actual username

now the .urelencode($val) is just to turn $val (which may be say two words into url transmittalbe information).

Make sense.

ED:

How would you do this in perl?