Hello Andre, Thanks for your test2 script. I changed things a bit in the first few lines (see below), so I could actually get a valid browser output. As you can tell, I put an eval around the 'new CGI' call again. If I don't, the script just mysteriously exits: no 'print', no nothing, and doesn't get to the HERE! statement. Simply doing "my $query = new CGI" alone, with the presence of POST data, and the script exits (module segfaults? I cannot tell; I'm not at awardspace's hosting site). So, needless to say, this is quite serious. Like I said, I even got an admin (not a silly helpdesk clerk) to admit that it's a bug; but they're not gonna fix it. That's why I was looking for a way around it. - Mark ------------ print "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\n\n"; print "Starting test2.pl, PID = $$\n"; print "Server is " . $ENV{SERVER_SOFTWARE} . "\n"; print "CGI version is $CGI::VERSION\n"; eval {my $query = new CGI} || print "could not create new CGI : $!"; my $md5 = new Digest::MD5 || print "could not create new MD5 : $!"; print "\nHERE!\n"; --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx